BUSTED! U.S. Customs and Border Protection Seizes $6 MILLION Worth Of Cocaine!
U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized $6 million worth of cocaine and arrested two men near Puerto Rico. 🌐 #News #BreakingNews #Crime #PuertoRico
PONCE, PUERTO RICO U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Thursday announced the seizure of more than 600 pounds of cocaine from a vessel in the waters near Puerto Rico on Wednesday, and two arrests.
A CBP P-3 Orion maritime surveillance aircraft spotted a vessel approximately 43 miles south of Ponce, Puerto Rico, heading north on Wednesday.
The crew from the Ponce CBP Air and Marine Operations Marine Unit deployed a vessel to intercept the suspect vessel, described as a 27-foot blue and white boat with two 75 HP Yamaha outboard motors.
Agents and officers boarded the vessel and found two men described as citizens of the Dominican Republic, and a Border Patrol K9 alerted to the presence of narcotics.
Officers found 11 bales of cocaine weighing 663.15 pounds, worth an estimated $6 million.
The seized cocaine, the vessel, and the two suspects were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Caribbean Corridor Strike Force (CCFS) for further investigation, CBP said.
Written by TMX staff, with additional reporting by Todd Johnson for JackAndKitty.com.
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