Police intercepted a 20-meter (65-foot) boat called AKT 1 on Wednesday about 300 nautical miles (555 kilometers) south of the Spanish archipelago off the Atlantic Ocean off West Africa. Police arrested five crew members – four Turkish nationals and a former Soviet Georgian man – on a ship carrying drugs in a fuel tank. The drugs are believed to have come from an unspecified location in South America, police said. A Spanish air patrol spotted the suspect while trying to hide among a fleet of fishing boats. He was then boarded by a customs patrol. Police say they are focusing on cracking down on what he calls an “African route” for South American traffickers who carry consignments of drugs on fishing boats across the Atlantic before smuggling them into Europe.