


It’s being reported now that the speedboat that President Trump had destroyed in international waters on Friday was carrying 2,200 pounds of cocaine, according to authorities in the Dominican Republic, who aided the US with the targeting of the drug boat.
CBS reports that they recovered 377 packages of cocaine from the destroyed boat, saying it had a total load of 2,200 pounds.
Here’s more:
Authorities in the Dominican Republic said Sunday they have confiscated some of the cocaine transported by a speedboat that was destroyed recently by the U.S. Navy, in what the Caribbean nation called the first operation of its kind.
In a news conference, the Dominican Republic’s National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD) said it recovered 377 packages of cocaine from the boat which was allegedly carrying 1,000 kilograms, or more than 2,200 pounds, of the drug. The drugs were recovered after “an aerial military strike by the United States against a speedboat of narcoterrorists,” the DNCD said in a statement.
At the news conference, a spokesperson for the U.S. embassy said the attack is the one President Donald Trump first announced Friday without saying where it had taken place, following several U.S. attacks on alleged drug boats off Venezuela. Mr. Trump at the time said three “male narcoterrorists” were killed.
Officials said the boat was destroyed about 80 nautical miles south of Isla Beata, a small island that belongs to the Dominican Republic. They said the Dominican’s Republic Navy worked in conjunction with U.S. authorities to locate the speedboat which was allegedly trying to dock in the Dominican Republic and use the nation as a “bridge” to transport cocaine to the United States.
Officials released a video of the operation, showing officers unloading and inspecting bricks of the alleged drugs, some bearing the word “MEN” on the packaging.
“This is the first time in history that the United States and the Dominican Republic carry out a joint operation against narco terrorism in the Caribbean,” the directorate said in a statement.