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The Unit­ed States Coast Guard said Fri­day it in­ter­cept­ed more than US$138 mil­lion worth of il­lic­it drugs dur­ing mul­ti­ple op­er­a­tions in the Caribbean Sea.

The crew of the cut­ter Valiant of­floaded 17,450 pounds of co­caine and 2,585 pounds of mar­i­jua­na — val­ued at US$132 mil­lion — at Port Ever­glades, Flori­da. A day ear­li­er, the cut­ter Vig­or­ous de­liv­ered ap­prox­i­mate­ly 840 pounds of co­caine, worth an es­ti­mat­ed US$6.2 mil­lion, to Coast Guard Base Mi­a­mi Beach.

Ac­cord­ing to the Coast Guard, the seizures re­sult­ed from six in­ter­dic­tions in the Caribbean Sea car­ried out by the agency and its in­ter­a­gency and in­ter­na­tion­al part­ners.