The United States Coast Guard made a billion dollar drug bust of the coast of south Florida on Thursday.
Officials with the Coast Guard say they offloaded a massive amount of seized drugs, totaling over $1 billion, at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale.
According to NBC Miami, the Coast Guard Cutter James dropped off the 54,500 pounds of cocaine and 15,800 pounds of marijuana during the bust at the Broward County port.
The drugs were seized "during multiple interdictions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea."
Coast Guard's Karl Schultz says “this massive cache of drugs is really the collective work of many. It’s 25 separate interdictions, five different Coast Guard cutters."
The drugs have an estimated street value of approximately $1.06 billion.