Coast Guard offloads $12 million in cocaine in San Juan, Puerto Rico, following interdiction of drug smuggling go-fast in the Caribbean Sea

PUERTO RICO

08.05.2020

Video by Ricardo Castrodad 

U.S. Coast Guard District 7     

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Napier (WPC-1115) offloads 430 kilograms of cocaine at Sector San Juan Aug. 5, 2020, which have a wholesale value of more than $12 million. The Coast Guard Cutter Richard Dixon (WPC-1113) apprehended two smugglers and seized 21 bales of cocaine after interdicting a go-fast vessel in the Caribbean Sea Aug. 2, 2020. The interdiction was the result of multi-agency efforts in support of U.S. Southern Command's enhanced counter-narcotics operations in the Western Hemisphere, the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) program and the Caribbean Corridor Strike Force (CCSF).

• Date Taken: 08.05.2020
• Date Posted: 08.05.2020 16:03
• Category: B-Roll
• Video ID: 762246
• VIRIN: 200805-G-KA744-1005
• Filename: DOD_107923891
• Length: 00:00:45
• Location: PR