Coast Guard seizes 5 tons of narcotics worth over $64.5 million in Caribbean Sea bust

The U.S. Coast Guard seized over five tons of narcotics, including 8,700 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $64.5 million, in the Caribbean Sea, officials said. The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Diligence, a 210-foot vessel whose primary missions are counter-drug and alien interdiction operations, enforcement of federal fishery laws and search and rescue operations, seized the contraband over two major interdictions in August and September in international waters of the Caribbean Sea, according to a statement from the U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday. On Aug. 7, Diligence’s crew detected and boarded a suspicious vessel moving very quickly approximately 136 miles southwest of Negril, Jamaica. “Diligence’s boarding team interdicted the vessel, seizing 1,500 pounds of marijuana. The contraband wa