Although drug seizures in the United States have risen slightly year-over-year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), traffickers continue to find increasingly ingenious ways to bring narcotics into the country.
U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) Chief Michael Banks said in a Sept. 25 post on X that his agency’s Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue Unit (BORSTAR) used specialized underwater cutting tools to extract 8 pounds of cocaine from the belly of a ship in the port of Miami two days earlier.
“USBP’s BORSTAR dive team plunged beneath Miami waters and discovered a parasitic load strapped to the hull of a vessel arriving from the Dominican Republic,” Banks said. “CBP Office Field of Operations seized the drugs. Our specialized team made history with their first ever parasitic drug seizure. This marks an innovative advancement to continuing narcotics interdiction efforts.”…