A cartel boat obliterated by the U.S. Navy as part of the Trump administration’s anti-cartel mission had over 2,000 pounds of cocaine on board, Dominican officials announced.
Dominican authorities seized 377 packages in total from the boat 80 nautical miles outside of Isla Beata, according to a CBS translation of an announcement from the Dominican Republic’s National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD). The boat was the third in a series of strikes from the Trump administration targeting vessels shipping narcotics to the U.S.
The DNCD released a video Sunday of agents offloading the vessel with the narcotics in question, with some of the packages labeled “MEN.”
“This is the first time in history that the United States and the Dominican Republic carry out a joint operation against narco-terrorism in the Caribbean,” the directorate said in a statement translated by CBS.
