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Richard Luscombe in Miami

US seizes $63m worth of cocaine after dramatic shootout on high seas

Law enforcement officer with gun at dockyard
About 4,800lb of cocaine were recovered after the shootout. Photograph: USCG via X

A high-seas shootout pitting drug runners against the law ended with the smugglers’ boat at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea and the US Coast Guard seizing $63m worth of cocaine, authorities in Florida said on Friday.

The dramatic encounter took place on Tuesday about 25 miles (40km) north of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, when the coast guard cutter Resolute – patrolling with the Dutch navy ship Groningen – identified a vessel in international waters suspected of carrying narcotics, according to a press release from the USCG south-east region.

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