ROME, April 27 (Reuter) Italian customs police said on Sunday they had seized 638 kg (1,400 pounds) of marijuana from an Albanian motor boat that landed near Santa Maria di Leuca on the southern Adriatic coast.

Saturday's find brought the amount of marijuana seized in 10 days along the coast near Lecce, southern Italy, to almost 1.6 tonnes, police said.

The haul was the biggest on record in the area and the boat's crew was arrested, they said.

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