More than 282 kilos of cocaine worth $ 7.2 million was seized in Aguadilla

Agents of the Intelligence Division of the United Forces Bureau of Rapid Action (FURA) in conjunction with members of the United States Border Guard Forces seized 282.34 kilos of cocaine Aguadilla.

In a police report, the police station reported that the shipment equals 7,202,540 in the market.

During the intervention, they were reported to detain five people with “undefined immigration status” and nationalized one. In addition, three occupied motor vehicles were seized.

The Federal Agency Caribbean Corredor Strike Force took over jurisdiction of the case.

Ten days ago, Agents of Air and Marine Operations (AMO) from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) intercepted 204 kilos of cocaine thrown from a three-occupant boat near Culebra, Puerto Rico’s island municipality, to the east, and, in another operation, the local police, seized 217 kilos in Manatí, in the north.

The value of the drug seized in Manatí was $ 6,727,000, and the estimated value of the drug seized in the East was $ 5.5 million.

Local and federal authorities in the Caribbean occupied 32,709 kilograms of illicit drugs worth $ 48.8 million in fiscal year 2020.

This amount indicates an increase of nearly $ 10 million compared to fiscal year 2019, according to CBP figures on border control efforts in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands over the past four fiscal years (2017-2020). .