Noem: Coast Guard made largest-ever cocaine seizure south of US border
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the Trump administration is following through on its vow to make America safe again with an "unprecedented" seizure of half a billion dollars worth of cocaine in a recent Coast Guard deployment.
Noem announced in Fort Everglades, Florida, on Thursday that two Coast Guard cutters returning from deployments south of the U.S. southern border had intercepted $517 million worth of mostly cocaine from smuggling boats. The seizure made it the most amount of cocaine seized in a single, four-month deployment.
"Today is a historic day here at Port Everglades; over 22.5 tons, or 45,000 pounds of cocaine and 50 pounds of marijuana, are about, are valued at over a half a billion dollars, are going to be offloaded and taken out of circulation," said Noem during a press conference staged in front of the ship.
"This is an unprecedented seizure of illicit drugs that is the result of 14 different introductions of drug smuggling vessels off the coasts of Mexico, Central, and South America by the crews of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stone and Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk," Noem said.
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