The Unit­ed States Coast Guard says the crew of its Cut­ter Ven­tur­ous on Fri­day of­floaded at Coast Guard Base Mi­a­mi Beach about 5,300 pounds of co­caine and mar­i­jua­na, worth an es­ti­mat­ed US $14.1 mil­lion, in­ter­dict­ed in the Caribbean Sea.

The US Coast Guard said the seized con­tra­band was the re­sult of four in­ter­dic­tions in the Caribbean Sea by the crews of USCGC Dili­gence and HNLMS Gronin­gen, with an em­barked Coast Guard law en­force­ment de­tach­ment.

“Stop­ping harm­ful and il­lic­it nar­cotics from reach­ing our shores and en­ter­ing our com­mu­ni­ties is a team ef­fort,” said Com­man­der Karen Kutkiewicz, Ven­tur­ous’ com­mand­ing of­fi­cer.

“It takes the com­bined ef­forts of our joint force DoD (De­part­ment of De­fence), DHS (De­part­ment of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty), and in­ter­na­tion­al part­ners to com­bat transna­tion­al crim­i­nal or­gan­i­sa­tions,” she added.

The US Coast Guard said US Coast Guard Cut­ter Dili­gence, Roy­al Nether­lands Navy ship HNLMS Gronin­gen, US Coast Guard Tac­ti­cal Law En­force­ment Team (TACLET) Pa­cif­ic, Joint In­ter­a­gency Task Force-South (JI­ATF-S) and Sev­enth Coast Guard Dis­trict com­mand cen­tre watch­standers were in­volved in the in­ter­dic­tion op­er­a­tions.

In­ter­dic­tions in the Caribbean Sea are per­formed by mem­bers of the US Coast Guard un­der the au­thor­i­ty and con­trol of the Sev­enth Coast Guard Dis­trict, head­quar­tered in Mi­a­mi.

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