"Coast Guardsmen on the Coast Guard Cutter Bernard C. Webber offloaded approximately 515 kilograms of cocaine interdicted in the Caribbean Sea as part of Operation Caribbean Venture," the press release stated on Friday.
The Coast Guard transferred the four suspected smugglers to the US authorities and offloaded the cocaine at a base in Miami Beach, Florida.
"This seizure highlights how effectively the US Coast Guard and our Allied partners are working together to disrupt the flow of illicit drugs from South America into the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe," Coast Guard 7th District Deputy Chief Cmdr. Timothy Cronin noted.
Since October 2014, the Coast Guard has seized $7.4 billion worth of cocaine and arrested more than 500 smugglers, according to the press release.
