Over $19.3 million in seized cocaine offloaded in Miami Beach, Coast Guard says

Over $19.3 million worth of cocaine seized by the U.S. Coast Guard was offloaded in Miami Beach on Thursday, officials said.

The 2,570 pounds of cocaine, over 1.2 tons, were offloaded at Base Miami Beach, along with six suspected drug smuggler who were transferred to federal custody, Coast Guard officials said.

The cocaine was seized during three interdictions in the Caribbean Sea by crews from the Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma and the USS Billings.

Coast Guard officials said they seized over 511,000 pounds of cocaine in 2025, over three times the annual average

And Operation Pacific Viper, which launched last August and targets drug trafficking in the Eastern Pacific, has led to the seizure of over 215,000 pounds of cocaine and the arrest of 160 suspected narco-traffickers.