On Monday, the crew of the United States Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton offloaded over 16,100 pounds of cocaine worth about $182.8 million in Port Everglades.
The crew worked alongside interagency and international partners to interdict the illicit narcotics in international waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean off South and Central America.
The drug seizure occurred during a three-and-a-half-month deployment and involved Coast Guard aircraft support.
According to a Coast Guard release, Coast Guard crews often deploy to the U.S. Southern Command joint operating area.The area includes the Caribbean Sea and the Eastern Pacific Ocean, where the crews conduct counter-drug missions supporting Joint Interagency Task Force-South.
“Deployments for cutters assigned to the Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command include Panama Canal transits to deny transnational criminal organizations access to maritime trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific Ocean,” the Coast Guard release said.
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