A U.S. Coast Guard vessel offloaded approximately 6,570 pounds of cocaine worth more than $49.3 million at Port Everglades, Florida, according to a March 19 statement from the federal agency.
The Coast Guard Cutter (CGC) Forward’s crew offloaded the narcotics, which were seized in two interdictions in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
“$49.3 million worth of narcotics will never reach our streets,” the Coast Guard said in a March 20 post on X, adding that the interdictions were carried out by the crews of the CGC Forward and CGC Spencer. “This is #OpPacificViper in action: disrupting narco-terrorism that threatens our communities and keeping these deadly drugs from crossing our borders.”…