US Coast Guard seizes $14m in Caribbean Sea drug bust

The Unit­ed States Coast Guard says the crew of its Cut­ter Ven­tur­ous on Fri­day of­floaded at Coast Guard Base Mi­a­mi Beach about 5,300 pounds of co­caine and mar­i­jua­na, worth an es­ti­mat­ed US $14.1 mil­lion, in­ter­dict­ed in the Caribbean Sea.

The US Coast Guard said the seized con­tra­band was the re­sult of four in­ter­dic­tions in the Caribbean Sea by the crews of USCGC Dili­gence and HNLMS Gronin­gen, with an em­barked Coast Guard law en­force­ment de­tach­ment.

“Stop­ping harm­ful and il­lic­it nar­cotics from reach­ing our shores and en­ter­ing our com­mu­ni­ties is a team ef­fort,” said Com­man­der Karen Kutkiewicz, Ven­tur­ous’ com­mand­ing of­fi­cer.