MIAMI – U.S. Border Patrol brokers have made a historic seizure of unlawful narcotics in Miami waters, recovering 8 kilos of cocaine strapped to the hull of a business vessel.
The operation, dubbed Operation Portside, concerned the Border Patrol’s specialised Search, Trauma, and Rescue, or BORSTAR dive group.
Brokers used underwater slicing instruments to extract the cocaine, which was discovered hidden in a “parasitic load” connected deep beneath a ship arriving from the Dominican Republic.
The seizure marks the BORSTAR dive group’s first-ever parasitic drug seizure and is being hailed as an modern development in ongoing narcotics interdiction efforts, in keeping with U.S. Border Patrol.
The medication had been seized by the U.S. Customs and Border Safety Workplace of Subject Operations.
“Our specialised group made historical past with their first ever parasitic drug seizure,” the company mentioned in an announcement.
The operation displays ongoing efforts to detect and forestall drug trafficking utilizing hid strategies beneath the waterline of economic ships.
