The US Coast Guard made its largest-ever offload of more than 70,000 pounds of cocaine and marijuana seized along the Florida coast over just two months, the military branch announced on Monday.
Guardsmen dropped a whopping 61,740 pounds of cocaine and 14,400 pounds of marijuana at Port Everglades, Florida, on Monday, officials said. 4
The bulk of the 76,140 pounds of illegal drugs was collected between June 26 and Aug. 18 through 19 different missions on international waters, primarily surrounding Ecuador, Venezuela and Mexico, according to a news release .
The sting, dubbed Operation Pacific Viper , clinched its largest seizure on waters near Socorro Island, Mexico, where the troops seized 9,160 pounds of cocaine — roughly 12% of the record-breaking haul collected by the end