Bondi, Patel announce seizure of over $509M in cocaine linked to cartels

Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel person announced the seizure of implicit $509 cardinal successful amerciable drugs.

Bondi and Patel announced the seizure during a property league connected Wednesday, saying the Coast Guard interdicted astir 45,000 pounds of cocaine and 3,800 pounds of marijuana worthy implicit $509 million.

According to Bondi, Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación and the Sinaloa Cartel were some "heavily tied" to these cause shipments.

"This is simply a large stroke to their fiscal operations and their efforts to administer drugs passim our country. It's an illustration of a prosecutor-led, intelligent, driven attack to stopping these transgression enterprises successful their tracks," Bondi said.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a property league connected Wednesday. (Fox News)

The Department of State designated Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación and the Sinaloa Cartel arsenic overseas violent organizations and specially designated planetary terrorists connected Feb. 20.

Eleven prosecutions, which are presently sealed, are ongoing arsenic a effect of the cause seizure, Bondi said. 

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Kash Patel (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

"This cocaine would person been distributed passim our state and possibly passim our world," she added. "These defendants volition beryllium held accountable for bringing this poison into our country. I ever say, if we tin prevention 1 life, 1 life, we person done astonishing work, and contiguous we person saved thousands and thousands of lives arsenic a effect of this unthinkable cooperation."

Patel said the cognition sends a connection to cartels: "They are nary longer going to beryllium escaped to roam."

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Pam Bondi, U.S. lawyer general, and Kash Patel, manager of the FBI, are shown during a property league astatine Port Everglades connected April 9, 2025, successful Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

"We are going to dismantle the next-man-up mentation that has been breeding successful these Mexican cartels for generations. No more," Patel said. "There is nary lethal unit connected satellite Earth that is liable for an overdose decease of an American national each 7 minutes, much truthful than these national violent organizations, overseas violent organizations."

A Coast Guard typical said during the property league that the cognition was 11 days agelong and progressive unit from the United States Coast Guard Cutter James.