US$2 million in marijuana seized
Sep 30, 2013
MIAMI, CMC – The United States Coast Guard says a joint operation with the Royal Bahamian Police Force Drug Enforcement Unit and the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), known collectively as Operation Bahamas Turks and Caicos (OPBAT), seized 67 bales of marijuana on Little Farmer’s Cay in the Exuma island chain of the Bahamas.
The Coast Guard said the seizure, the second in a week, has a wholesale value is in excess of US$2 million. The seizure, made this week is “a direct result of coordinated US and Bahamian counter-narcotics effort, known as Operation Lion Fish.
The drug was discovered in a hidden cache on a remote cay and totaled 2,307 pounds, the Coast Guard said.
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