{"id":156572,"date":"2026-02-15T20:11:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/156572\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T20:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:11:39","slug":"2-vessels-with-5-6m-worth-of-cocaine-seized-off-fort-lauderdale-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/156572\/","title":{"rendered":"2 vessels with $5.6m worth of cocaine seized off Fort Lauderdale \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Coast Guard and several agencies seized about $5.6 million worth of cocaine from two vessels that were off Port Everglades.<\/p>\n<p>According to the USCG, the first boat was interdicted on Monday by a Fort Lauderdale law enforcement boat crew, as well as Customs and Border Protection K9 unit officers.<\/p>\n<p>The second vessel interdiction happened on Wednesday, when a suspected drug smuggling vessel was spotted over seven miles east of Port Everglades.<\/p>\n<p>The operation also involved Homeland Security, and about 746 pounds of cocaine were seized.<\/p>\n<p>USCG released the following statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Coast Guard is in the business of saving lives, and every kilogram of these drugs kept off our streets represents lives saved,&#8221; said Lt. Justin Dadlani, commanding officer, Station Fort Lauderdale. &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t be more proud of the professionalism of the crew and our continued partnerships with our partners with Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security Investigations.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Coast Guard and several agencies seized about $5.6 million worth of cocaine from two vessels that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-156572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}