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Pedro Camacho

Coast Guard Unloads Haul With Enough Illegal Drugs 'To Fatally Overdose the Entire Population of the State of Florida'

Largest drug offload in US Coast Guard history (Credit: U.S. Coast Guard Southeast X account)

The U.S. Coast Guard announced it offloaded a record seizure of illegal narcotics at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, totaling 61,740 pounds of cocaine and 14,400 pounds of marijuana, valued at $473 million.

Rear Admiral Adam Chamie, commander of the Coast Guard's southeast district, said the cocaine alone represents approximately 23 million potentially lethal doses—enough, he noted, "to fatally overdose the entire population of the state of Florida."

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