Coast Guard's international seizure nets $37 million in cocaine [Image 1 of 3]

MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES

01.28.2014

Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Crystalynn Kneen 

U.S. Coast Guard District 7 PADET Tampa Bay

Chief Petty Officer Raymond Kneen, engineering petty officer aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Sitkinak, homeported in Miami Beach, Fla., offloads 2,500 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $37 million wholesale value, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, at Coast Guard Base Miami Beach. The contraband was seized in a multi-national counter-drug operation south of the Dominican Republic and is the first time an armed U.S. Coast Guard helicopter embarked on a foreign flagged military vessel in support of counter-drug operations. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Crystalynn A. Kneen)

• Date Taken: 01.28.2014
• Date Posted: 01.28.2014 12:10
• Photo ID: 1157161
• VIRIN: 140128-G-KY418-047
• Resolution: 2379x3000
• Size: 3.25 MB
• Location: MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, US