Coast Guard seizes 26.5 tons of cocaine

By Dalila-Johari Paul, CNN
Updated 3:05 PM ET, Fri December 16, 2016

(CNN)More than 26 tons of cocaine worth $2 billion have been seized by the US Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy, officials said Thursday.
Approximately 100 suspected drug smugglers were apprehended at sea and turned over to federal authorities, said Vice Adm. Karl Schultz, commander of the U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area. The inter-agency operation intercepted 27 shipments and five bale recovery efforts over the course of 10 weeks, Schultz said.

The 26.5 tons of cocaine were unloaded in South Florida Thursday and Schultz said the drugs came from several areas of South America, including "the Andean Ridge, Bolivia, Peru and Colombia."
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