The police have confirmed they have seized two kilograms of cocaine and arrested a 57-year-old man.

Constabulary and Customs Officers had attended the late evening arrival from Liverpool on Wednesday night.

Officers stopped the car the man was driving shortly after the Manannan sailing arrived in the island .

During a search they found a block of the drug, weighing about two kilograms which they said has a street value of £200,000.

The police said the man was arrested on suspicion of ’drug importation offences’ and is said to be ’helping with enquiries at Police HQ’.