FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Authorities have seized 154 pounds of cocaine valued at $2 million at Port Everglades in Florida.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman Migdalia Arteaga says officers found a duffel bag full of cocaine bricks on Feb. 16 while inspecting ship containers arriving from Ecuador.
Authorities discovered an empty container with a burlap sack and a K-9 sniffed out the hidden drugs.
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The evidence tested positive for cocaine and was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations.
Officials say no arrests have been made.
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