{"id":321963,"date":"2026-06-27T17:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/321963\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T17:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:50:07","slug":"coast-guard-offloads-more-than-63m-worth-of-cocaine-and-marijuana-at-port-everglades-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/321963\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard offloads more than $63M worth of cocaine and marijuana at Port Everglades \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Coast Guard on Friday offloaded more than $63 million worth of cocaine and marijuana at Port Everglades. <\/p>\n<p>According to the USCG, the drugs were interdicted during three days in the international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The following dates show the amount that was seized. <\/p>\n<p>June 11: Crews boarded a vessel and seized about 4,000 pounds of marijuana. <br \/>June 12: Crews boarded two vessels and seized about 7,660 pounds of cocaine.<br \/>June 13: Crews recovered a bale in the Eastern Pacific Ocean that had about 60 pounds of cocaine. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe success of these interdictions reflects the strength of our partnerships and the persistence of our crews,\u201d said Cmdr. Jorell Webb, commanding officer of Coast Guard Cutter Bear, in a statement. &#8220;Our success required the integration of thoughtful training, carefully planned logistics, and joint coordination. We are very proud of our efforts to prevent illicit networks from threatening our security.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States Coast Guard on Friday offloaded more than $63 million worth of cocaine and marijuana at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,2974],"class_list":["post-321963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-port-everglades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321963","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=321963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}