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The crew of the US Coast Guard (USCG) Cutter Resolute offloaded around $115 million worth of cocaine and marijuana in St Petersburg, Florida, on October 23 after returning from a 38-day counter-trafficking operation in the Caribbean, USCG said.

The coast guard said the Resolute crew seized 9,690 pounds of cocaine and 5,490 pounds of marijuana “in support of Joint Interagency Task Force-South (JIATF-South), an interagency and international task force that conducts counter-illicit trafficking and security cooperation operations in the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.”

Some of the narcotics had been jettisoned from a “go-fast vessel” after it was pursued across 40 nautical miles by members of the Resolute crew and a Dutch aircraft, the coast guard said.

Two weeks later, around 1,650 pounds of the seized cocaine was found hidden inside a sailing vessel in the central Caribbean, they added.

A Royal Netherlands Navy ship working under the JIATF-South partnership also transferred “more than 5,000 pounds of marijuana and 4,409 pounds of cocaine to Resolute,” along with five suspected smugglers who were taken to the United States to face federal prosecution, USCG said. Credit: US Coast Guard via Storyful