Overview

• The crew offloaded about 8,700 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $64.5 million at Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg on Monday and transferred the shipment to case agents.
• The cocaine came from a Sep. 6 interdiction of a go-fast panga about 240 miles north of Panama in international waters.
• Earlier in the patrol, crews seized 1,500 pounds of marijuana on Aug. 7 near Negril, Jamaica, later transferred to Cutter Hamilton and offloaded at Port Everglades as part of a record haul.
• Diligence interdicted more than 10,000 pounds of illicit narcotics during the Western Caribbean deployment.
• Officials said the mission, conducted under JIATF-S and Coast Guard District Southeast, targets high-seas smuggling networks that help enable fentanyl trafficking.