The U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported Wednesday that it seized a shipment of 96 pounds (44 kilograms) of cocaine valued at $ 1.3 million in the port of San Juan. of a ship from the Dominican Republic.
CBP detailed in a press release that the drug was found inside a cooling fan in a container aboard the cargo ship M / V GH Pampero, which arrived at a dock in San Juan from the port of Rio Haina, in the Dominican Republic.
No one related to the drug shipment has been arrested.
According to CBP, a smuggling control team from his agency boarded the vessel for a routine inspection of the containers using non-intrusive inspection technology.
A container was additionally inspected, opening its container cooling ventilation access panel, where CBP officers discovered 41 brick-shaped objects, which later tested positive for cocaine. .
“Smugglers continue to find ways to hide their illicit drug charges in the international supply chain,” Noel De Jesus, interim associate director of Field Operations for Border Security in Puerto Rico, said in a statement. the US Virgin Islands.
“The experience of our officers, along with the use of all available tools, resulted in the detection of these narcotics. Our communities can feel safer knowing that CBP men and women are securing their borders. “, he added.
CBP is a border agency whose mission is to keep terrorists out of U.S. territory. EFE