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The Unit­ed States Cus­toms and Bor­der Pro­tec­tion (CBP) agency says agents from its Air and Ma­rine Op­er­a­tions (AMO) have nabbed a yola-type ves­sel, ar­rest­ing three Venezuela na­tion­als and seiz­ing 1,009 pounds of co­caine in the Caribbean Sea.

The es­ti­mat­ed val­ue of the co­caine seized off south­east­ern Puer­to Ri­co is US$8.2 mil­lion.

CBP said that, at mid­night on Ju­ly 12, a Caribbean AMO as­set de­tect­ed a sus­pect ves­sel nav­i­gat­ing north about six nau­ti­cal miles south of Pun­ta Tu­na, Maun­abo, Puer­to Ri­co.