Coast Guard offloaded thousands of pounds of weed and cocaine. Here’s what it’s worth.
By David J. Neal and
Carli Teproff
June 06, 2019 08:45 PM, Updated 9 hours 51 minutes ago
The Coast Guard offloaded 26,000 pounds of cocaine and 1,500 pounds of marijuana Thursday morning at Port Everglades, the result of more than a dozen interdictions in the waters off the coast of Mexico and Central and South America from March until May.
“Three-hundred fifty million dollars of street value that’s not going to go to some of the most violent criminals in the world in this hemisphere. Do let me just say thank you first to the team of [the cutter] Hamilton,†said Kevin McAleenan, acting secretary of Homeland Security, with the drugs in the background at the Fort Lauderdale port.
A little math and the U.S. cocaine market says McAleenan’s estimation of the street value falls well short of what the drugs are actually worth.
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