Authorities in the Dominican Republic announced that they seized hundreds of packages of cocaine from a speedboat that had been destroyed by the U.S. Navy during a joint operation. The National Directorate for Drug Control said the vessel was intercepted roughly 80 nautical miles south of Isla Beata, a small island under Dominican jurisdiction, and was being used to transport a large drug shipment.
Officials confirmed they recovered 377 packages of cocaine from the wreckage, estimating the shipment carried around 1,000 kilograms in total. The speedboat was believed to be part of a larger trafficking route that uses the Dominican Republic as a transit point to move drugs toward the United States.
The operation was carried out with close coordination between the Dominican Republic’s navy and U.S. authorities. Military officials described the effort as a significant success in targeting narco-trafficking activity in the Caribbean.
According to Dominican officials, this mission marks the first joint naval action with the United States aimed directly at combating “narco-terrorism” in the region. They emphasized that such cooperation is essential to reducing the flow of drugs through the Caribbean corridor and curbing the influence of organized crime groups that depend on these routes.
