Cargo Business Newswire

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

More than $8M in cocaine confiscated at Port Everglades

More than 615 pounds of cocaine, with a street value of about $8.4 million, was seized at Port Everglades recently, federal authorities announced Friday.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found duffel bags containing the drugs on Sept. 26 while they were inspecting shipping containers on board a vessel that arrived from Cartagena, Colombia,

spokesman Keith Smith said.

The bags were found inside one of the containers, officials said.

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