The Department of Justice and the United States Coast Guard burst 45,000 pounds of cocaine with a value of more than $ 500 million, according to the main DJ officials on Wednesday.
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI director Kash Patel were in Port Everglades in Florida on Wednesday and said that drug seizures saved lives and protected the public.
“We have saved thousands and thousands of lives as a result of this incredible cooperation,” Bondi said. “We believe that two posters, CJNG and Sinaloa, were strongly tied to these shipments.”
The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, and Attorney General Pam Bondi attend a press conference to announce the seizure of 45,000 pounds of cocaine in Port Everglades, Florida, April 9, 2025.
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He added that the Coast Guard used “drones, airplanes and ships to interdict traffickers.”
Patel had a message for posters: there is a new leadership throughout the Department of Justice.
“We are going to dismantle the ‘Next-Man-up’ theory that has been reproduced in these Mexican posters for generations,” Patel said about Mexican drug posters. “No more.”
The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, attends a press conference to announce the seizure of 45,000 pounds of cocaine in Port Everglades, Florida, April 9, 2025.
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The Coast Guard said the operation took 11 days when the crew of the Coast Guard of the United States and that finding drug traffickers in its patrol area is like “finding a needle in a pinch.”
Bondi said 11 people were arrested in relation to the operation.
Attorney General Pam Bondi attends a press conference to announce the seizure of 45,000 pounds of cocaine in Port Everglades, Florida, April 9, 2025.
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Patel said it was an effort between agencies with the Coast Guard, the Department of Defense and the assets of the DOJ in the game.
The Vicemenal of the United States Coast Guard, Nathan Moore, told journalists that since February, the Coast Guard has seized more than 59 metric tons of narcotics.
