Coast Guard offloads 3,355 lb of marijuana at Port Everglades
The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Tampa offloaded about 3,355 pounds of marijuana alongside cocaine at Port Everglades after six Eastern Pacific interdictions. Officials estimated the combined haul at $226.7 million, with no arrests announced.
The U.S. Coast Guard announced the offload of more than $226 million in illicit
drugs at Port Everglades, Florida, on Wednesday morning, 14 October 2026.[1]The haul came from six separate interdictions by the crew of Coast Guard Cutter
Tampa, with help from partner agencies, during operations in the Eastern Pacific
Ocean.[1]
Officials estimated the offload at about 29,600 pounds of cocaine and 3,355
pounds of marijuana, or about 1,522 kilograms of cannabis.[1]Officials put
the estimated value of the combined cocaine and marijuana haul at $226.7
million, not a marijuana-only value.[1]
Atlantic Area commander Vice Adm. Jo-Ann F. Burdian joined Cutter Tampa
commanding officer Cmdr. Joshua M. DiPietro and Helicopter Interdiction Tactical
Squadron commanding officer Capt. Kent Reinhold for the announcement.[1]Burdian said the roughly 13 metric tons of cocaine seized was enough to deliver
10 million potentially fatal doses to American communities.[1]DiPietro said
smugglers use increasingly powerful vessels, intelligence networks and
deliberate tactics such as scuttling valves that sink evidence and endanger
boarding teams.[1]
The $226.7 million estimate covers cocaine and marijuana together and cannot be separated into a marijuana-only value, so it is kept in the text and omitted from figures.
The cocaine quantity is mentioned only as context and is excluded from cannabis figures.
14 October 2026 is the offload and announcement date; the dates of the six Eastern Pacific interdictions were not given.
No arrests, charges or court outcomes were reported.
Only one opened source supports this event; no second accessible report was found.
The page lead still image credited to the U.S. Coast Guard has no caption or alt text establishing that it shows this offload, so no photo entry is listed.
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