Nationwide News understands narcotics police in Kingston are at this hour cutting through a shipping container to retrieve a cache of illegal drugs.

It’s understood the drugs are inside the ribs that run along each side of the 40-ft container.

Our sources say smugglers cut each rib, stuffed the contraband inside, then welded each back together.

It’s unclear at this time if this is related to the billion-dollar cocaine bust at a Kingston port reported by the police on Friday.