A U.S. Coast Guard cutter crew unloaded more than 8,000 pounds of cocaine at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday. The agency says the haul is worth almost $62 million.
The drugs were seized in the Caribbean Sea about 90 miles off the coast of Cartagena on May 8, the Coast Guard said in a press release.
The Cutter Tahoma, which is based in Newport, Rhode Island, brought the contraband to South Florida on Thursday upon its return from serving a drug-interdiction tour off Colombia as part of ongoing operations with the U.S. Navy and other agencies in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific Ocean…