The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded over 38 tons of cocaine and marijuana Monday morning at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale. It's the largest cocaine offload in Coast Guard history, officials said.

The 76,140 pounds of illegal narcotics were seized during 19 interdictions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, according to the Coast Guard.

The drugs were brought to port by the Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton.

On hand for the offload were Coast Guard Rear Admiral Adam Chamie, commander of the southeast district, and U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Chase Sargeant, deputy director of the Joint Interagency Task Force-South.

"The crew of Hamilton, who have been on the ship for over the last two months, personally interdicted over 47,000 pounds cocaine. These men and women put themselves in

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