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The Coast Guard just dumped nearly 40 tons of drugs worth nearly half a billion dollars onto a dock in Florida
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The Coast Guard just dumped nearly 40 tons of drugs worth nearly half a billion dollars onto a dock in Florida

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The Coast Guard just dumped nearly 40 tons of drugs worth nearly half a billion dollars onto a dock in Florida

The U.S. Coast Guard seized more than 75,000 pounds (34,000 kilograms, or 37.5 tons) of illegal drugs this summer from boats far out to sea in the Pacific and Caribbean, which the service called its largest-ever haul worth nearly half a billion dollars.

The Coast Guard worked with the Department of Defense on these seizures, catching 19 drug-carrying vessels off the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador, the coast of Venezuela, Mexico, the Dominican Republican, Jamaica and Aruba, the Coast Guard said.

Some of the vessels were spotted

The Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton offloaded the combined 76,140 pounds (34,500 kilograms) of drugs at Port Everglades, Florida, on Monday, including about 61,740 pounds (28,000 kilograms) of cocaine and about 14,400 pounds (6,500 kilograms) of marijuana seized

The agency estimated the drugs’ street value at around $473 million.

The Trump administration has promised to overhaul the Coast Guard, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, increasing the service’s fleet and boosting its military workforce

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