A pair of Quebecers who set sail in the Caribbean Sea now find themselves behind bars and without a boat.
On the night of July 19, French Customs officials spotted a sailboat suspected of trafficking drugs off the shore of St. Martin. The men aboard the small vessel had agreed to follow a border control boat to St. Martin, but due to the conditions at sea at that moment the boats were unable to meet.
The next morning, at about 10:00 A.M. the same sailboat was found engulfed in flames near the island of Martinique. The two men seen on the sailboat tried to escape in a life raft.
The French Navy extinguished the flames on the boat and the men were arrested. During a search of the boat customers officials said they found a little over 1.5 tons of cocaine, worth about $90 million.
According to the Journal de Montreal the men in their 50s are from Rivière-du-Loup and were in court in Fort-de-France on Tuesday where a judge ordered they remain behind bars until a trial.