Dominican Republic Seizes Cocaine From Boat Destroyed by US
The Caribbean country’s drug control agency said it seized 377 packages of the drug from the boat.
An armed officer guarding drugs at news conference in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on Sept. 21, 2025. DMR National Drug Control Directorate via AP
The Dominican Republic said on Sept. 21 it confiscated some of the estimated 2,200 pounds of cocaine allegedly being transported by a speedboat recently destroyed by the U.S. Navy.
The Caribbean nation’s National Directorate for Drug Control said it recovered 377 packages of cocaine.
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
