{"id":171807,"date":"2026-02-27T18:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171807\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:46:09","slug":"coast-guard-seizes-1-3-million-in-narcotics-after-busting-suspected-drug-smuggling-boat-off-miami-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171807\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard seizes $1.3 million in narcotics after busting suspected drug smuggling boat off Miami coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0February 27, 2026 at 1:27 PM<\/p>\n<p>2 arrested by Homeland Security Investigationslead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/QYHCZKAZGRCTBOLYBKTGJ2JWTY.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>(Coast Guard Southeast District) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI  \u2014 The U.S. Coast Guard interdicted a suspected drug smuggling boat off the coast of Miami last weekend and seized about $1.3 million worth of narcotics, the agency announced Friday in a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Coast Guard officials, the boat was interdicted at about 2:15 p.m. Saturday, about 8 miles off the coast of Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cDuring the boarding, the joint law enforcement crew found approximately 17 pounds of marijuana and 174 pounds of cocaine, later confirmed through laboratory testing, worth an estimated $1.3 million,\u201d the press release stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials said two suspected smugglers were taken into custody by Homeland Security Investigations. While they didn\u2019t identify the suspects in the press release, Local 10 reported earlier this week on the arrests of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/24\/man-caught-off-coast-trafficking-millions-in-cocaine-marijuana-from-jamaica-feds-say\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/24\/man-caught-off-coast-trafficking-millions-in-cocaine-marijuana-from-jamaica-feds-say\/\">two Jamaican nationals who were accused of trafficking cocaine and marijuana from the island.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOur crew is committed to keeping drugs off the streets and protecting America\u2019s borders,\u201d said Lt. Zane Carter, commanding officer, Coast Guard Cutter Richard Etheridge. \u201cI could not be prouder of my crew\u2019s professionalism and their seamless integration with our partner agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Those involved in the interdiction at sea included:<\/p>\n<p>Coast Guard Southeast DistrictCoast Guard Sector MiamiCoast Guard Cutter Richard EtheridgeCoast Guard Investigative ServiceHomeland Security InvestigationsCustoms and Border Protection Office of Field Operations K9 unitCustoms and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0February 27, 2026 at 1:27 PM 2 arrested by Homeland Security Investigationslead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand(Coast Guard Southeast District) MIAMI \u2014 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-171807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171807","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=171807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}