Coast Guard Offloads Over 7,500 Pounds Of Cocaine Worth $143.5 Million At Port Everglades
The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded over 7,500 pounds of cocaine at Port Everglades on Monday.
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The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded over 7,500 pounds of cocaine at Port Everglades on Monday.
Customs and Border Protection agents at Port Everglades seized over 69 pounds of cocaine.
South Florida may have warm weather and beautiful beaches, but it also has an infamous drug trade which keeps popping up, literally, along the coast of the Florida Keys. That's because packages of cocaine keep washing ashore the Florida Keys.
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The Monroe Sheriff's Office announced that packages containing 74 pounds of cocaine were found by a fisherman about 15 miles offshore and south of Sugarloaf Key on Wednesday afternoon.
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Suspected false mariner credentials led federal authorities to board a motor vessel on the Miami River and find packages containing cocaine.
The U.S. Coast Guard made a massive drug drop off at Port Everglades Thursday morning.
Nearly $26 million in cocaine and marijuana will not make it to the streets of South Florida or anywhere else thanks to the U.S. Coast Guard.
Golf clubs filled with cocaine were intercepted by U. S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Miami International Mail Facility on Monday, officials said.
Nearly 50 pounds of cocaine were found stashed in boxes of oranges at Port Everglades.
Hurricane Dorian delivered tropical-storm winds, rain, high surf, and bricks of cocaine to the Sunshine State.
The U.S. Coast Guard completed a massive offload of drugs Thursday which were seized at sea during a three-month-long operation.
More than 13 tons of cocaine were offloaded Friday morning at US Coast Guard Station Miami Beach.
Nearly 35,000 pounds of cocaine was offloaded Tuesday by the Coast Guard at Port Everglades.
One hundred thirty two pounds of cocaine will not make it to the streets of South Florida after being interdicted off Haulover Inlet.
A Florida man was arrested Thursday night after more than 40 grams of cocaine were found in his possession during a traffic stop near in the Florida Keys, but not before he decided to eat part of the arresting officer's patrol car seat.
An estimated $500 million dollars worth of cocaine will never make it to the streets of South Florida or anywhere else after it was confiscated at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard.
On Thursday, Hollywood police announced the arrest of 18 people, following a five-month-long narcotics investigation.
U.S. Coast Guard crews unloaded tons of drugs at Port Everglades on Wednesday.
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Twelve tons of cocaine and a ton of marijuana will not make it to the shores of South Florida or anywhere else for that matter after being seized at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard.
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