MIAMI, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says crew members from the Cutter Northland and Coast Guard Station Miami Beach have offloaded over 1,000 pounds of cocaine and transferred the alleged smugglers to US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officials in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
On Saturday, the Coast Guard reported that the estimated street value of the drugs was US$19 million.
According to Coast Guard officials, while on routine patrol in the Eastern Pacific on May 29, 2013, the crew of the Cutter Bertholf received a report from a US Customs and Border Protection aircraft crew of a go-fast vessel about 305 miles southwest of Cocos Island, Costa Rica.
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