The Guardian
A shootout on the excessive seas pitting drug traffickers towards the regulation ended with the smugglers' boat on the backside of the Caribbean Sea and the US Coast Guard seized $63 million value of cocaine, authorities in Florida stated on Friday.
The dramatic encounter occurred on Tuesday about 25 miles (40 km) north of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, when the coast guard cutter Resolute – which was patrolling with the Dutch navy ship Groningen – noticed a vessel in worldwide waters suspected of transporting narcotics, in keeping with a press launch. launch from the USCG Southeast Area.
The crew of a joint power quick interceptor vessel fired on the suspected smugglers when the “non-compliant vessel” was turned at velocity in direction of them, and the boat caught hearth and sank. The U.S. and Dutch sailors acted “in self-defense and protection of others in response to the life-threatening state of affairs,” the press launch stated.
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