{"id":142739,"date":"2020-06-12T07:59:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T11:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=142739"},"modified":"2020-06-12T09:36:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T13:36:35","slug":"us-customs-seizes-us6-million-cocaine-shipment-on-santo-domingo-san-juan-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/06\/12\/us-customs-seizes-us6-million-cocaine-shipment-on-santo-domingo-san-juan-ferry\/","title":{"rendered":"US Customs seizes US$6 million cocaine shipment on Santo Domingo-San Juan ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"250\" height=\"215\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cocaina-en-Ferry-SD-PR-Customs-and-Border-Protection-USA.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-142759\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced the seizing of 492 pounds (223 kilos) of cocaine inside a container on board the Santo Domingo-San Juan, Puerto Rico ferry. The ship had arrived on 10 June to Puerto Rico. The CBP Contraband Enforcement Team inspected various containers arriving on the M\/V Kydon and found eight duffle bags containing 20 bricks in each. A CBP K9 (canine unit) alerted positive to the duffle bags, and a sample tested positive for cocaine. The cocaine cargo is estimated to be worth US$6 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Smugglers use very creative means to conceal their illicit drug loads into the international supply chain,&#8221; stated Roberto Vaquero, Acting Director of Field Operations in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. &#8220;Our officers&#8217; expertise, along with the utilization of all available tools, resulted in the detection of these narcotics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/newsroom\/local-media-release\/cbp-san-juan-field-operations-seizes-492-pounds-cocaine-inside\">Customs and Border Protection <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 June 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced the seizing of 492 pounds (223 kilos) of cocaine inside a container on board the Santo Domingo-San Juan, Puerto Rico ferry. The ship had arrived on 10 June to Puerto Rico. The CBP Contraband Enforcement Team inspected various containers arriving on the M\/V Kydon and found &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/06\/12\/us-customs-seizes-us6-million-cocaine-shipment-on-santo-domingo-san-juan-ferry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142760,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142739\/revisions\/142760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}