{"id":182665,"date":"2026-03-08T00:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T00:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182665\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T00:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T00:47:08","slug":"two-drug-smuggling-vessels-seized-off-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182665\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Drug Smuggling Vessels Seized Off Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale law enforcement boat crew along with Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations officers and Homeland Security Investigations agents recently seized approximately 745 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $5.6 million, from two suspected drug smuggling vessels off Port Everglades in South Florida.<\/p>\n<p>A Station Fort Lauderdale law enforcement boat crew along with a CBP OFO K9 unit officers interdicted a suspected drug smuggling vessel in the vicinity of the Fort Lauderdale sea buoy.<\/p>\n<p>A Station Fort Lauderdale law enforcement boat crew interdicted a suspected drug smuggling vessel, 7 miles east of Port Everglades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/b4370751.smushcdn.com\/4370751\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/CoastGuard_FortLauderdaledrugsmuggling3.jpg?lossy=2&amp;strip=1&amp;webp=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-248893 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/CoastGuard_FortLauderdaledrugsmuggling3-1024x487.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"331\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Coast Guard is in the business of saving lives, and every kilogram of these drugs kept off our streets represents lives saved,\u201d said Lt. Justin Dadlani, commanding officer, Station Fort Lauderdale. \u201cI couldn\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These operations are part of a whole-of-government approach to secure borders by dismantling foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations, including narco-trafficking and human smuggling operations.<\/p>\n<p>PHOTOS: U.S. Coast Guard photo by Station Fort Lauderdale\u2019s crew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A U.S. Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale law enforcement boat crew along with Customs and Border Protection Office&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[58563,1993,11325,249,251,250,15897,667,2974,42552,86141],"class_list":{"0":"post-182665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-border-protection","9":"tag-coast-guard","10":"tag-drug-smuggling","11":"tag-fort-lauderdale","12":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","13":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","14":"tag-homeland-security","15":"tag-investigation","16":"tag-port-everglades","17":"tag-seized","18":"tag-vessels"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182665","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=182665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}