Some 20 metric tons of drugs worth nearly half a billion dollars seized by the U.S. Coast Guard were offloaded in Fort Lauderdale Thursday.
The nearly $445 million in illegal drugs were dropped off at Port Everglades, officials said.
The drugs were seized during suspected drug smuggling interdictions in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific Ocean.
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Four Coast Guard cutters and a U.S. Navy ship collected the drugs during 13 different seizures, officials said.
