SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, CMC – The USA Customs and Border Safety (CBP) company says officers from its Air and Marine Operations (AMO), together with the Puerto Rico Police Joint Forces for Fast Motion (FURA, for its Spanish acronym), have seized a yola-type vessel and arrested three narcotic smugglers within the Caribbean Sea.
CBP mentioned three migrants from Colombia and Panama had been discovered smuggling 62 bales of cocaine into Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico.
CBP mentioned that, in the course of the morning hours of August 6, a Caribbean Air and Marine Operations asset detected a suspect vessel navigating north within the Caribbean Sea within the route of the municipalities of Lajas and Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico.
“The Michel Maceda Marine unit deployed the crew of a Coastal Interceptor Vessel crew, in addition to a FURA Marine unit,” CBP mentioned.
It mentioned AMO and FURA intercepted an “Eduardoño yola-type vessel”, two nautical miles from the coast close to the “la Pitahaya” sector of Cabo Rojo.
CBP mentioned marine Interdiction Brokers arrested two Colombian nationals and one Panamanian nationwide, “with out correct documentation to enter or stay in the US legally and seized a complete of 60 extra-large bales and two giant bales of cocaine.”
The smugglers and the contraband had been transferred to Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for investigation and prosecution, CBP mentioned.
