Italian Authorities Seize $340 Million in Cocaine 3.21K Brian Moylan 11/15/10 04:48PM Filed to: Drugs Drugs Cocaine Italy smugglers drug busts shutterstock tweet Fb Italian police have seized 2,200 pounds of coke entering the country in a shipping container. The smugglers should have considered using a jet, since that's the hot new trend in drug smuggling. And we thought Italians were so fashionable!