Coast Guard Seizes 2 Tons Of Cocaine Worth $245M
Bales of cocaine, with a street value of $245 million dollars will never make it to the streets of South Florida or anywhere else for that matter thanks to the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Bales of cocaine, with a street value of $245 million dollars will never make it to the streets of South Florida or anywhere else for that matter thanks to the U.S. Coast Guard.
A Colombian man accused of trafficking cocaine into numerous countries including the United States was extradited to the South Florida early this week.
Gone are the go-fast boats, long associated with drug smugglers and the cocaine cowboys. Now as CBS4's Chief Investigative Reporter shows you, drug subs are the newest mode of keeping their drug trafficking activities out of sight.
A trial date has been set for a British teen accused of carrying 30 pounds of cocaine stuffed in boxes of cake mix at Miami International Airport.
A British teen found carrying 30 pounds of cocaine stuffed in boxes of cake mix at Miami International Airport appeared before a bond court judge Friday morning.
A British teen found carrying 30 pounds of cocaine stuffed in boxes of cake mix at Miami International Airport has been formally charged as an adult.
More than 2,300 pounds of marijuana and nearly 900 pounds of cocaine will not make it into the streets of South Florida after Coast Guard crews seized the illegal drugs from two separate vessels earlier this month.
The U.S. Coast Guard off-loaded seven tons of cocaine, worth nearly $180 million, seized from a self-propelled semi-submersible vessel in St. Petersburg on Friday.
A British teen found carrying 30 pounds of cocaine stuffed in boxes of cake mix at Miami International Airport will be charged as an adult, according to prosecutors.
Authorities in Miami are trying to figure out if a British teen is a very crafty baker, or an ameteur drug smuggler.
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Plenty of strange items have washed ashore Florida beaches over the years, and now authorities are investigating the discovery of 22 bales of cocaine.
The U.S. Coast Guard captured more than a ton of cocaine during two operations in the Caribbean in recent weeks.
In the latest twist in the war against drugs, smugglers have turned to stealth techniques to sneak massive amounts of drugs into the US, by hiding the cargo beneath the waves where it's hard to spot. But, for the second time in just a few months, the Coast Guard has spotted the smugglers, seized their cargo, and watched as their drug sub sank to the bottom of the sea.
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Fifteen thousand pounds of cocaine, worth more than $180 million, seized from a drug sub in the Caribbean, was offloaded in Miami Tuesday morning.
The U.S. Coast Guard has recovered a so-called "narco submarine", used by Colombian drug cartel members to export cocaine into the United States.
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