The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) seized more than 14,000 pounds of drugs under an operation probing a drug trafficking organization based in Colombia, the agency said in a Nov. 6 statement.
Operation Iron Current was conducted by ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Hattiesburg division, located in Mississippi, after the drug trafficking organization was suspected of distributing thousands of pounds of cocaine in the United States.
The report did not name the organization.
The operation intercepted and seized two go-fast vessels. These vessels contained roughly 7,054 pounds of marijuana and around 7,028 pounds of cocaine, with a combined estimated street value of more than $80.5 million, ICE said. …