The seizure also comes on the heels of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting that fatal drug overdoses in the country topped more than 100,000 annually from April 2020 to April 2021.
Packages of cocaine and marijuana are stacked on the deck of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. MIAMI — The Coast Guard and other federal officials showed off more than a billion dollars’ worth of cocaine and marijuana Thursday that was confiscated from smugglers during several recent operations in the Pacific Ocean and more nearby in the Caribbean Sea.
The congresswoman made the remarks at the media briefing and was joined by other officials in front of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James, which was docked at Port Everglades. “Our country is losing an American every five minutes around the clock,” Rahul Gupta, director of the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, said at the news conference.
Capt. Todd Vance, commander of the James, explained Thursday that a typical interdiction first involves a Coast Guard helicopter spotting a “go-fast” or speedboat in the water. A cutter then launches a smaller patrol boat crewed by a team that will board the speedboat.
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