{"id":5990,"date":"2026-10-16T07:04:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/coast-guard-seizes-227m-in-drugs-in-pacific\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T07:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:04:06","slug":"coast-guard-seizes-227m-in-drugs-in-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/coast-guard-seizes-227m-in-drugs-in-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast Guard Seizes $227M in Drugs in Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Nearly 33,000 pounds of cocaine and marijuana were intercepted during six maritime operations before being offloaded in Florida. PORT EVERGLADES, FL \u2013 October 16, 2026 (STL.News) The U.S. Coast Guard has offloaded nearly 33,000 pounds of illegal narcotics valued at approximately $226.7 million following six separate maritime interdictions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, marking a significant development in the federal government\u2019s continuing campaign against international drug trafficking organizations. The massive shipment, consisting of approximately 29,600 pounds of cocaine and 3,355 pounds of marijuana, was delivered to Port Everglades in South Florida on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, aboard the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/coast-guard-seizes-227m-in-drugs-in-pacific\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 33,000 pounds of cocaine and marijuana were intercepted during six maritime operations before being offloaded in Florida. PORT EVERGLADES, FL \u2013 October 16, 2026 (STL.News) The U.S. Coast Guard has offloaded nearly 33,000 pounds of illegal narcotics valued at&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5992,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions\/5992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}