{"id":157034,"date":"2026-02-16T11:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/157034\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T11:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:50:14","slug":"over-5m-in-drugs-seized-by-coast-guard-border-patrol-in-fort-lauderdale-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/157034\/","title":{"rendered":"Over $5M In Drugs Seized By Coast Guard, Border Patrol In Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A whole lotta drugs won&#8217;t see the light of day on our streets&#8230;thanks to Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale , Customs and Border Protection officers and Homeland Security Investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Agents seized approximately 745 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $5.6 million, from two suspected drug smuggling vessels off Port Everglades.<\/p>\n<p>A Fort Lauderdale police boat crew along with a CBP K9 officer interdicted a suspected drug smuggling boat; a crew also interdicted a suspected drug smuggling vessel, 7 miles east of Port Everglades.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.uscg.mil\/Press-Releases\/Article\/4407039\/coast-guard-partners-seize-2-vessels-with-56-million-in-illicit-narcotics-off-f\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A whole lotta drugs won&#8217;t see the light of day on our streets&#8230;thanks to Coast Guard Station Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1250,249,251,250,20248,123,119,13883,75317,6142,110,75316],"class_list":{"0":"post-157034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-dolphins","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","11":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","12":"tag-marlins","13":"tag-miami","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-palm-beaches","16":"tag-play-by-play","17":"tag-radio","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-wbzt"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157034","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=157034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}