Coast Guard Seizes $24 Million In Cocaine
While snow may be causing major problems in the Midwest, a different kind of 'snow' has fallen on Key West.
While snow may be causing major problems in the Midwest, a different kind of 'snow' has fallen on Key West.
More than $17 million worth of cocaine will not make it to the streets of South Florida or anywhere else for that matter after the U.S. Coast Guard intercepted the 1,400 pounds of coke from a go-fast vessel in the southwest Caribbean Sea.
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The U.S. Coast Guard has made a trio of high seas drug seizures worth $100 million.
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Nearly 3-thousand pounds of cocaine, worth an estimated $35 million, has been interdicted at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard.
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More than 3,800 pounds of cocaine seized by the U.S. Coast in three different interdictions were offloaded Friday at the guard's base in Miami Beach.
Four suspected smugglers could run, but could not hide as the combined forces of the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy bore down on them in the western Caribbean.
Seven-point-three million dollars worth of cocaine will not make it to the streets of South Florida or anywhere else after the illegal contraband was found at Port Miami.
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The U.S. Coast Guard will be offloading nearly two tons of cocaine in Miami after it recently confiscated the drugs from a go-fast vessel in the Caribbean Sea.
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Residents in the path of Hurricane Helene in northwest Florida evacuated or were hunkered down Thursday.
As Hurricane Helene made landfall on Thursday night, as a tropical storm warning remains in effect for all of South Florida.
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