US EditionCoast Guard Seizes Enough Cocaine to Fatally Overdose Entire Florida Population
The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted 19 vessels carrying over 76,000 pounds of cocaine and marijuana valued at $473 million, detaining 34 suspected traffickers in a multi-month operation.
- On Monday, the Coast Guard offloaded more than 61,000 pounds of cocaine and 14,000 pounds of marijuana seized this summer, valued at $473 million.
- On Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard seized drugs off Florida's coast during an operation aimed at intercepting traffickers in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.
- Maritime patrol aircraft first located several suspect boats, boarding teams then intercepted and searched them, detaining 34 suspected drug traffickers during the operations.
- Officials estimated the street value at $473 million, and authorities said the cocaine contained enough lethal doses to fatally overdose all 23 million residents of Florida.
- Officials noted the seizures were part of multiple operations to stop drugs reaching the United States, with the Coast Guard's 43,000 active duty members, 8,000 reservists, and 30,000 auxiliaries planning to expand by at least 15,000.
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This discharge included 28,000 kilos of cocaine and 6,500 kilos of marijuana that were seized during 19 operations in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea
U.S. Coast Guard announces record haul of drugs seized in the Pacific, Caribbean
The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded a record 76,140 pounds of illicit drugs valued at $473 million at Florida on Monday, marking the largest drug offload in Coast Guard history. The offload included approximately 61,740 pounds of cocaine and 14,400 pounds of marijuana, preventing the maritime flow of about 23 million potential lethal doses from reaching the United States, officials said. "The U.S. Coast Guard in partnership with our federal, DoD, and…
The U.S. Coast Guard unloaded 34 tons of narcotics seized in the last four months in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans at Everglades Port (Florida), an amount “sufficient to cause a fatal overdose to the entire population” of the state, and that is a record figure for a single discharge.
The U.S. Coast Guard seized more than 34,000 kilos (75 thousand pounds) of drugs this summer in boats in the Pacific and the Caribbean, which the service described as its largest seizure, valued at almost half a billion dollars.The agency worked with the Department of Defense on these seizures, capturing 19 boats carrying drugs near the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador, the coast of Venezuela, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Aruba, the C…
Coast Guard seized a record 76,000 pounds of drugs this summer off Central and South America
The drugs came from 19 interdictions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, with locations ranging from the Galapagos Islands to areas off Venezuela, Mexico, and other countries.
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