Thread: D.E.A. Seizes 1.5 Metric Tons of Cocaine

News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 7, 2010
Contact: SA Waldo Santiago
Public Information Officer
Number: (787) 277-4700

DEA Caribbean Corridor Strike Force Arrests Five, Seizes 1.5 Metric Tons Of Cocaine Worth $46 Million

JUN 7 -- (SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico) - DEA Caribbean Corridor Strike Force (CCSF) agents, working jointly with U.S. Coast Guardsmen, arrested last Friday five suspected Honduran smugglers and seized 66 bales of cocaine in San Juan, following an at-sea interdiction of the fishing vessel Two Brothers on May 24, announced Javier F. Peña, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Caribbean Division, and Rosa Emilia RodrÃ*guez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.

The 87-foot, Panamanian flagged, fishing vessel was carrying 3,269 pounds of cocaine with an estimated wholesale value of approximately $46 million. DEA CCSF agents arrested the five Honduran men in connection with the seizure.

“These arrests and multi-kilogram seizure are a clear indication of the success of the Caribbean Corridor Strike Force Initiative,â€

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