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US customs seizes 989kg cocaine worth $29 million, apprehend 13 men
US customs and border protection (CBP) office of Air and Marine, Coast Guard and Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), seized a 989 kilograms (2,180 pounds) cocaine shipment and apprehended thirteen men following an at-sea interdiction of a delivery vessel and coastal freighter, approximately eight nautical miles off the north coast of Puerto Rico. Two of the suspected smugglers were charged in a criminal complaint authorized by U.S. Magistrate Camille Vélez-Rivé with conspiracy to import of cocaine; charges are pending on the remaining eleven. The seized cocaine shipment was estimated to have a street value of approximately $29 million dollars. The suspects aboard the delivery vessel claimed to be of Venezuelan nationality, while the crew of the 267-foot St. Vincent and Grenadines-flag coastal freighter Atlantic VII was comprised of four Dominican Republic nationals, four Cubans, one Peruvian, one Panamanian and an Ecuadorian. http://customstoday.com.pk/us-customs-his-coast-guard-seize-989-kg-cocaine-worth-29-million/
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