The U.S. Coast Guard says it seized a record 76,000 pounds of drugs this summer off Central and South America.

The 61,740 pounds of cocaine and 14,400 pounds of marijuana was the largest narcotics offload in the Coast Guard’s history.

This image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard show crew members aboard the. US Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton after offloading ...

“To put this into perspective, the potential 23 million lethal doses of cocaine seized by the U.S. Coast Guard and our ...

The drugs came from 19 interdictions in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, with locations ranging from the ...