YEREVAN, AUGUST 11, ARMENPRESS. The U.S. Coast Guard dropped off more than $1 billion in cocaine in San Diego on August 10 that was seized in one of the most successful seasons of patrolling off the Central and Southern American coasts. Armenpress reports the latter, referring to “Los Angeles Times”.

The cargo: more than 66,000-pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $1.01 billion, the Coast Guard said. It was the biggest single offload of narcotics in Coast Guard history and the result of 23 separate confrontations with drug smugglers in the Pacific, officials said.

For the current fiscal year, which runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, the Coast Guard has seized more than 119,000 pounds of cocaine worth more than $1.8 billion and apprehended more than 215 alleged smugglers. That amounts to more than the previous three years’ total combined and the most in a single year since 2009, officials said.