The U.S. Coast Guard has offloaded cocaine in Miami worth an estimated $186 million that was seized in international waters of the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.
"This teamwork is imperative to the identification, interception and seizure of vessels engaged in illicit trafficking and a testament to the hard work of these crews," said Coast Guard Lt. Peter Hutchison.
The Coast Guard did not say how the drugs were intercepted but traffickers sometimes use semis-submersible vessels known asCocaine that is abandoned by traffickers periodically washes up on the shores of Florida. In April, packages of cocaine worth more than $100,000
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