Border Patrol agents, backed by the U.S. Coast Guard, seized 71 kilograms (157 pounds) of cocaine on Saturday and arrested two Dominican men near Villa Montana in Isabela. The estimated value of the confiscated cocaine is $ 1.9 million.
“We continue to interrupt and detain smugglers trying to smuggle people and narcotics across our borders,” said Xavier Morales, chief patrol agent in the Ramey sector. “
On January 23, a Coast Guard HC-144 Ocean Sentry maritime patrol aircraft located a suspicious vessel, continued aerial surveillance and drove Border Patrol officers to the exact spot where the vessel touched. land.
Officers found two men aboard a 21-foot, white-and-blue “iol” -type boat with a 40-horsepower engine. Both people claimed to be citizens of the Dominican Republic.
Officers recovered 58 cocaine bricks and an additional 40-horsepower engine.
National Security Investigations (HSI) assumed custody of the contraband and foreigners for investigation and prosecution.
Last week, officers from the Ramey Border Patrol and local police confiscated 284 pounds of vehicle cocaine near Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
The Ramey Sector is one of twenty sectors across the United States. Covering the territorial islands of the United States of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, it is the only sector of the Border Patrol located outside the continental territory of the United States. The entire border area of the Sector is made up of coasts and its area of responsibility is made up of about 6,000 square miles of land and water, including the twelve-mile strip of territorial water that surrounds the Islands.
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