The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency arrested three Venezuelan non-citizens on a Caribbean Sea vessel carrying 3,051 pounds of cocaine.
CBP reported that the contraband was worth US$32 million and was seized near Palmas de Mar on Puerto Rico’s eastern coast.
The authorities found a “lights-out vessel traversing at high speed” 10 miles off Humacao, Puerto Rico, with help from a US Coast Guard aircraft.
Agents intercepted a “yola” near Palmas del Mar. “Agents arrested three Venezuelan nationals and seized 40 bales of suspected contraband,” the GBP said.
On March 30, agents intercepted a vessel near Mona Island, Puerto Rico, with six bales of cocaine and arrested two Dominican men.
