Coast Guard Intercepts $58 Million In Cocaine Off FL Coast
The Coast Guard showed off a major cocaine bust in Key West Wednesday.
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The Coast Guard showed off a major cocaine bust in Key West Wednesday.
The U.S. Coast Guard is celebrating a gigantic drug bust on board a submarine on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. More than 15,000 pounds of cocaine, with a street value of more than $180 million, was recovered.
Fifteen thousand pounds of cocaine, worth more than $180 million, seized from a drug sub in the Caribbean, was offloaded in Miami Tuesday morning.
The U.S. Coast Guard has recovered a so-called "narco submarine", used by Colombian drug cartel members to export cocaine into the United States.
If you found a block of something floating in the water off the Florida Keys, chances are your first reaction would not be to start munching on it. Unfortunately, that's not the choice 53-year-old Thomas Swindal made, and it probably killed him.
If you were in Miami-Dade bond court on cocaine charges Thursday morning, you got quite a reprieve.
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An investigation is underway after a small amount of cocaine was found at facility at the Kennedy Space Center.
A U.S. Coast Guard cutter had quite a catch off the coast of Panama on December 17th. The intercepted boat was hauling cocaine, with an estimated wholesale street value of $48 million.
Broward Sheriff's deputies conducted a major crackdown on crime in South Florida.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing lawmakers to put a proposed constitutional amendment on the 2026 ballot to reduce or eliminate taxes on homesteaded properties.
The portal is designed to streamline where people can report threats or calls for violence seen online or in person.
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A team of Harvard researchers analyzed data for more than 66,000 nurses, ages 36 to 56, who were surveyed about their own health for 20 years.
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