{"id":103461,"date":"2025-07-30T00:49:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103461\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T00:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:49:15","slug":"dominican-authorities-find-1-5-tons-of-cocaine-after-boat-chase-lasting-more-than-12-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103461\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican authorities find 1.5 tons of cocaine after boat chase lasting more than 12 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/dominican-republic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Dominican Republic<\/a>\u00a0said Tuesday that they chased a boat for more than 12 hours and discovered 1.5 tons of cocaine aboard it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of the Caribbean country&#8217;s biggest seizures in history, said Carlos Devers, spokesperson for the country&#8217;s Anti-Drug Agency. Authorities began pursuing a speedboat heading towards the island with several people on board after determining it to be suspicious, local news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/acento.com.do\/actualidad\/dncd-incauta-1-5-toneladas-de-droga-en-lancha-en-costas-de-pedernales-9530262.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Acento reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Helicopters, boats and cars were involved in the chase, which began Monday off the country&#8217;s south coast near Pedernales. It ended with the arrest of three Dominicans and one Colombian, Devers said.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/screenshot-2025-07-29-at-3-27-25-pm.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2025-07-29-at-3-27-25-pm.png \" height=\"342\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Image released by the National Drug Control Directorate of the Dominican Republic (DNCDRD) shows the speedboat.<\/p>\n<p>                National Drug Control Directorate of the Dominican Republic (DNCDRD)<\/p>\n<p>Inside the 35-foot boat were 53 bales of plastic packages, totaling 1,536 individually wrapped bags of suspected cocaine, authorities said. Authorities also seized items including a cellphone, 13 jerrycans of fuel, a small cooler filled with water and food, and a backpack with a change of clothes.<\/p>\n<p>The Dominican Republic has long been considered a major drug transit point, with some of the shipments bound for Europe. The largest seizure in the country&#8217;s history happened last year in December when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/dominican-republic-cocaine-seizure-record-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">authorities seized nearly 9.5 tons of cocaine<\/a> worth $250 million. Overall, officials seized more than 46 tons of drugs last year.<\/p>\n<p>The second biggest seizure was reported in 2006, with 2.8 tons of cocaine found at Caucedo port.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/screenshot-2025-07-29-at-3-27-52-pm.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2025-07-29-at-3-27-52-pm.png \" height=\"342\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  National Drug Control Directorate of the Dominican Republic (DNCDRD) said Tuesday that it confiscated over a ton of cocaine following a more than 12 hours long boat chase.<\/p>\n<p>                National Drug Control Directorate of the Dominican Republic (DNCDRD)<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities in the\u00a0Dominican Republic\u00a0said Tuesday that they chased a boat for more than 12 hours and discovered 1.5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":103462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14505,50,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-103461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-dominican-republic","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114939442316410757","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}