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The Unit­ed States Coast Guard on Wednes­day said the crew of the Coast Guard Cut­ter Tam­pa end­ed Fleet Week Fort Laud­erdale with the of­fload, at Port Ever­glades, of about 3,750 pounds of co­caine and mar­i­jua­na, worth an es­ti­mat­ed US$12.3 mil­lion, seized in the Caribbean Sea.

The Coast Guard said the seized con­tra­band was the re­sult of two in­ter­dic­tions in the Caribbean Sea by the crew of USS Min­neapo­lis-Saint Paul and their em­barked Navy he­li­copter and Coast Guard law en­force­ment de­tach­ments.

“We train dili­gent­ly and stand ready to ex­e­cute in­ter­dic­tion mis­sions at mo­ment’s no­tice,” said Com­man­der Steven Fresse, Min­neapo­lis-Saint Paul com­mand­ing of­fi­cer.