FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The U.S. Coast Guard celebrated a “historic milestone” after crews unloaded over 76,140 pounds of illegal drugs — most of it cocaine — that the feds planned to investigate and destroy.
On Monday, at Port Everglades, USCG Rear Adm. Adam Chamie described it as “the largest drug offload” in USCG history and the result of a team effort in the eastern Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean.
The USCG announced the offloads in Fort Lauderdale valued at $473 million were part of the $2.2 billion in drugs that had been seized and offloaded so far this year after interdictions at sea…