Fort Lauderdale, FL – The U.S. Coast Guard unloaded millions of dollars in seized narcotics at Port Everglades following several maritime drug interdictions conducted in the eastern Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n
Coast Guard officials announced Wednesday that crews confiscated approximately 29,600 pounds of cocaine and 3,355 pounds of marijuana during six separate operations.<\/p>\n
Federal authorities estimated the combined value of the seized drugs at $226.7 million.<\/p>\n
The narcotics were recovered by personnel aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Tampa, working with partner agencies during counterdrug missions in international waters.<\/p>\n
The cutter transported the confiscated shipments to Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, where crews completed the offloading operation Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
Federal officials held a news conference to discuss the seizures and provide additional details about the maritime interdictions.<\/p>\n
Vice Adm. Jo-Ann F. Burdian, commander of the Coast Guard’s Atlantic Area, participated alongside Cmdr. Joshua M. DiPietro, commanding officer of the Cutter Tampa.<\/p>\n
Capt. Kent Reinhold, commanding officer of the Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron, also participated.<\/p>\n
According to Coast Guard estimates, the approximately 13 metric tons of cocaine represented roughly 10 million potentially fatal doses.<\/p>\n
The Coast Guard conducts maritime interdictions to identify and stop suspected drug trafficking vessels before illegal narcotics reach their destinations.<\/p>\n
These operations involve coordination among federal law enforcement agencies, military personnel and international partners.<\/p>\n
Officials have not identified individuals allegedly involved in transporting the seized narcotics or disclosed potential criminal charges.<\/p>\n
The confiscated drugs remain under federal control as authorities continue their investigations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale, FL – The U.S. Coast Guard unloaded millions of dollars in seized narcotics at Port Everglades…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1993,168572,5558,249,251,250,168573,89675,13415,17627,2974],"class_list":["post-428985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-coast-guard","tag-drug-interdictions","tag-drugs","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-jo-ann-f-burdian","tag-millions","tag-narcotics","tag-operations","tag-port-everglades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428985","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=428985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}