Border patrol agents, with the support of the US Coast Guard, seized 157 pounds of cocaine on Saturday and arrested two Dominican men near Villa Montana in Isabela. The estimated value of the seized cocaine is $ 1.9 million.
“We continue to disrupt and detain smugglers who try to smuggle people and narcotics across our borders,” said Xavier Morales, Ramey’s chief patrol agent. “
On January 23, a Coast Guard HC-144 Ocean Sentry maritime patrol aircraft located a suspicious vessel, continued aerial surveillance and escorted Border Patrol agents to the exact location where the ship landed.
Officers found two men aboard a six-meter white and blue “yola” boat with a 40 hp engine. The two people claimed to be citizens of the Dominican Republic.
Officers found 58 cocaine cubes and an additional 40 horsepower engine.
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) took custody of the contraband and the aliens for investigation and prosecution.
Last week, Ramey Border Patrol agents and local police seized 284 pounds of cocaine from vehicles near Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
The Ramey sector is one of twenty one sectors spread across the United States. It covers the territorial islands of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, and is the only border surveillance sector outside the continental United States. The entire boundary area of the Sector is made up of coasts, and the area of responsibility comprises approximately 6,000 square miles of land and water, including the twelve-mile stretch of territorial water that surrounds the islands.
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