Noem: Coast Guard made largest-ever cocaine seizure south of US border

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the Trump administration is following through on its vow to make America safe again with an “unprecedented” seizure of half a billion dollars worth of cocaine in a recent Coast Guard deployment.

Noem announced in Fort Everglades, Florida, on Thursday that two Coast Guard cutters returning from deployments south of the U.S. southern border had intercepted $517 million worth of mostly cocaine from smuggling boats. The seizure made it the most amount of cocaine seized in a single, four-month deployment.