Miami Coast Guard Seizes $27 Million Worth Of Cocaine
The Coast Guard is celebrating another big haul seized in the western Caribbean.
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The Coast Guard is celebrating another big haul seized in the western Caribbean.
A go-fast boat carrying $242 million dollars worth of cocaine was heading was being intercepted in the open waters off Panama, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Tuesday.
A multimillionaire South Beach hotelier and close friend of Lindsay Lohan was arrested at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport on Tuesday.
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More than $17 million worth of cocaine will not make it to the streets of South Florida or anywhere else for that matter after the U.S. Coast Guard intercepted the 1,400 pounds of coke from a go-fast vessel in the southwest Caribbean Sea.
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Nearly $3 million in cocaine was seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Miami International Airport Thursday.
The U.S. Coast Guard has made a trio of high seas drug seizures worth $100 million.
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Nearly 3-thousand pounds of cocaine, worth an estimated $35 million, has been interdicted at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard.
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More than 3,800 pounds of cocaine seized by the U.S. Coast in three different interdictions were offloaded Friday at the guard's base in Miami Beach.
Four suspected smugglers could run, but could not hide as the combined forces of the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy bore down on them in the western Caribbean.
Seven-point-three million dollars worth of cocaine will not make it to the streets of South Florida or anywhere else after the illegal contraband was found at Port Miami.
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The Pompano Beach Fire Department said a 13-year-old boy was taken to Broward General with a gunshot wound to the leg.
Neighbors say FBI agents arrived at Cube Motors in Miami early Wednesday morning
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The attack came a day after U.S. forces struck an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea, killing two people.
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