The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded a historic quantity of cocaine, worth hundreds of millions, on Monday, Aug. 25, marking the largest amount of drugs ever offloaded by the agency.

On Aug. 25, the Coast Guard announced in a news release that it captured 76,140 pounds of illicit narcotics valued at approximately $473 million in Port Everglades, a seaport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The drugs included roughly 61,740 pounds of cocaine and 14,400 pounds of marijuana.

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