Authorities make largest cocaine seizure at N.Y.-area port in 25 years

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Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Authorities have seized the biggest shipment of cocaine recovered at the ports of New York and New Jersey in almost 25 years. The massive bust Feb. 28 at the Port of New York/Newark in Elizabeth came after authorities checked a shipping container entering the country. They found 60 packages containing 3,200 pounds of a white powdery substance that proved to be cocaine, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a statement Monday.

An examination of a shipping container entering the United States revealed sixty packages containing a white powdery substance that field-tested positive for cocaine.The seizure, which has an estimated street value of $77 million, is the biggest cocaine bust at the ports since 1994 when about 6,600 pounds were seized, according to a CBP spokesman.Customs officers turned the drugs over to federal Homeland Security officials for investigation.

You mean it didnt come across the Mexican border

And I was expecting something like this at the Southern border

But the border!

kwswim17 The IllegitimatePresident will say that building the wall would have stopped them. Although we know that the statement is astronomically ridiculous, it wouldn’t be the first time he’d say something that was an astronomical LIE!🌻

Just legalize drugs here already

Wait...what? Are you sure it’s not the southern border?!?!

While Obama turned a blind eye to this realDonaldTrump has removed the restraints to catch the traffickers. BEST POTUS EVER! TRUMP2020 🇺🇸

Better build a wall around NY and NJ!!!

This is great news.

Union crooks

Build a wall around nyc drugs are coming in there

Maybe they can stop the heroin from coming in from the eat coast, oh wait that's the CIAs business model.

Sure glad we built the wall. Lol

toney2020 Where’s the wall?

No where close to the Mexican border

If only we had that big beautiful wall on the southern border to stop the drugs FireTuckerCarlson TrumpCutsMedicaid

I wonder what has changed? New inspector? New technology? People didn't get their payoff cash, to look the other way? But congratulations are in order for the folks who caught this.

This is only 1 1/2 tons. Biggest ever was 40 tons. It's never been made public.

We should build a wall around ports of N.Y. and New Jersey.

'wall'

A wall at the southern border would really make a difference here.

Not even near the West. Maybe NY needs a wall.

Build a Sea Wall, make the long lost city of Atlantis pay for it

But we need less protection at our borders lol. People forget port of calls are borders as well

And just what did the wall do NOTHING

Would a wall...? Oh. Never mind.

BuildTheWallAndCrimeWillFall BuildAMoatItTotesMagotes Winning! Wwg1wga! Maga! Derp

Look Mr President the dems are planting drugs to create a ‘fake news’ national emergency 2,000 miles from yours. Making you look tremendously FOOLISH. realDonaldTrump 🤫🤭😂😂😂

We need to get started on that Wall around the port and get Mexico to pay for it.

Maybe if we had a wall around the ocean?

Watch Trump use this as a reason for his wall :/

Not at the border, but at a port?

Colin Jost your order has been cancelled

Now here’s hard evidence that drugs don’t come through the TheWall realDonaldRrump is advocating for ... EdKrassen

Build a wall.

Well there goes Trump's debate help.

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realDonaldTrump how will the wall help with this?👆

Imma let you finish but Whitey had the biggest/greatest cocaine seizure of all time.

Build the sea wall!

Don't go patting your selves on the back guys , that is one days worth of cocaine for one borough.

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If only they had a wall?

But wait!!!! The emergency is supposed to be in Mexico.

The port of entry. Not on some dune buggy driving through a wall in the TX desert.

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