Florida: Coast Guard in Miami Beach Unloads Bales of Cocaine with a Street Value of About $350 Million
April 15th, 2014The 80-pound bricks, which were seized in two separate cases in Southwestern Caribbean waters, were handed over to federal agents and will be destroyed. *wink*
Ah well, at least they didn’t need U.S. Air Force transports this time.
Via: Miami Herald:
Wearing protective gloves and masks, members of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Legare carried 127 bales of cocaine – with a street value of about $350 million – off the ship and into a waiting trailer Tuesday.
The 80-pound bricks, which were seized in two separate cases in Southwestern Caribbean waters, were handed over to federal agents and will be destroyed. The drugs are worth about $110 million wholesale.
“We can safely assume that these drugs probably would have ended up here,” said U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Junior Grade Meaghan Gies, who handles the drug program for District 7.
Gies and other Coast Guard members stood at the Miami Beach base Tuesday morning waiting for the Virgina-based ship’s arrival.
“Between the two, this is probably the biggest offload we have had in a year,” she said as she spotted the vessel making its way to the port.
