MIAMI — Federal authorities seized approximately 900 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $6.7 million and detained three suspected smugglers during a maritime drug interdiction operation off the coast of Miami, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Friday in a news release.
According to the U.S. Coast Guard, a Coast Guard boat crew, working alongside U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations and CBP Office of Field Operations officers, intercepted a suspected drug-smuggling vessel about 1 mile east of Cape Florida on Sunday.
The operation resulted in the seizure of roughly 900 pounds of cocaine. Federal agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Miami Division have taken custody of the three suspects and the narcotics as the investigation continues…