{"id":289204,"date":"2026-05-29T18:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289204\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T18:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:43:09","slug":"suspected-smugglers-6-7m-in-cocaine-found-on-boat-off-cape-florida-uscg-says-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289204\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected smugglers, $6.7M in cocaine found on boat off Cape Florida, USCG says \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three suspected drug smugglers were taken into custody after a boat loaded with around $6.7 million in cocaine was found off Cape Florida, U.S. Coast Guard officials said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel was seized on Sunday about a mile east of Cape Florida by a U.S. Coast Guard Station Miami Beach boat crew, Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations and CBP Office of Field Operations officers.<\/p>\n<p>On board authorities found about 900 pounds of cocaine, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/052926-coast-guard-cocaine-cape-florida.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"Images from the U.S. Coast Guard show the 900 pounds of cocaine found off Cape Florida.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tU.S. Coast GuardU.S. Coast Guard<\/p>\n<p>Images from the U.S. Coast Guard show the 900 pounds of cocaine found off Cape Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Federal agents from the DEA&#8217;s Miami Division took custody of the cocaine and the three suspected smugglers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Coast Guard and our federal, state and local law enforcement partners remain vigilant in our shared efforts to keep our maritime borders safe by preventing illicit narcotics from reaching our communities,&#8221; Lt. Matthew Ross, Coast Guard Station Miami Beach commanding officer, said in a statement. &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t be more proud of the professionalism of our law enforcement crews and our continued collaboration with our partners to safeguard American lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three suspected drug smugglers were taken into custody after a boat loaded with around $6.7 million in cocaine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-289204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-florida","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289204","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=289204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}