{"id":31832,"date":"2024-09-05T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=31832"},"modified":"2024-09-05T02:47:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T07:47:35","slug":"federal-agents-seize-33-million-worth-of-cocaine-on-popular-puerto-rican-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=31832","title":{"rendered":"Federal agents seize $33 million worth of cocaine on popular Puerto Rican island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico &#8212;&nbsp;Federal agents on Wednesday seized $33 million worth of cocaine aboard a boat that was trying to smuggle the drug into the tiny Puerto Rican island of Vieques, according to officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">More than 3,600 pounds (1,670 kilograms) were confiscated in the pre-dawn hours after unidentified people aboard the boat beached it and fled the area, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Vieques is located just east of Puerto Rico and is a popular tourist destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The seizure comes just days after U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Puerto Rico police seized more than $5 million worth of cocaine aboard a boat near the western coastal town of Rincon. More than 580 pounds (260 kilograms) were confiscated, and two U.S. citizens were arrested on Sunday, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Puerto Rico has long served as a transit point for drugs being smuggled into the U.S. mainland and Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/federal-agents-seize-33-million-worth-cocaine-puerto-113398793\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico &#8212;&nbsp;Federal agents on Wednesday seized $33 million worth of cocaine aboard a boat that was trying to smuggle the drug into the tiny Puerto Rican island of Vieques, according to officials. More than 3,600 pounds (1,670 kilograms) were confiscated in the pre-dawn hours after unidentified people aboard the boat beached it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[30346,1607,30347],"class_list":["post-31832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-33-million","tag-agent","tag-puerto-rico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31834,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31832\/revisions\/31834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}