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Video by Seaman Meredith Manning

Coast Guard offloads $23 Million of cocaine

U.S. Coast Guard District 7

March 17, 2014 | 0:40

Crewmembers aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Richard Etheridge, a 154-foot Sentinel-class Fast Response Cutter homeported at Sector Miami, offload approximately 1,500 pounds of cocaine, worth an estimated wholesale value of $23 million, in St. Petersburg, Fla., Monday, March 17, 2014. This interdiction was carried out as part of Operation Martillo, which is one component in the United States government’s whole-of-government approach to countering the use of the Central American littorals as transshipment routes for illicit drugs, weapons, and cash. U.S. Coast Guard video by Seaman Meredith Manning.