U.S. authorities, partnering with multiple international agencies, seized around 20,334 pounds of cocaine in four separate maritime interdictions this week.
One of the recent incidents involved the interception of a go-fast vessel southwest of Punta Pina in Colombia, which led to 728 kilograms (1,605 pounds) of cocaine being seized, the Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) South said in a July 2 post on X. The interdiction, carried out by the Colombian Navy in the Eastern Pacific, led to the arrests of two suspected smugglers.
JIATF South, based in Key West, Florida, monitors and facilitates the interception of drug traffickers in maritime and air domains. The task force involves the cooperation of 13 domestic and 20 international partners. It aims to disrupt the flow of illegal narcotics and dismantle transnational criminal organizations….