FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) – Talk about a major haul.
The U.S. Coast Guard is offloading 54,500 pounds of cocaine and nearly 16 thousand pounds of marijuana at Port Everglades.
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The drugs were brought to the port aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James
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The drugs were seized during multiple interdictions in the Eastern Pacific and the Caribbean Sea.
The value of the drugs is more than a billion dollars.