Customs and Border Protection officers were injured in a gunfight while trying to board a suspected smuggler boat off the coast of Puerto Rico.
According to the Washington Examiner, five U.S. border agents with the Customs and Border Protection's Air and Marine Operations arm were shot by suspected drug dealers 14 miles off the coast of Puerto Rico.
Three marine interdiction agents were involved in an exchange of gunfire with people on a suspected smuggler vessel off the coast of Puerto Rico. The Customs and Border Protection said in a statement that the Marine agents suffered gunshot injuries.
The agents are being flown to the Puerto Rico Trauma Center. The event is being investigated There will be additional information provided as it becomes available.
The incident is said to have happened early Thursday morning. Human and drug traffickers are arrested by air and sea. The casualty count has not been confirmed by the Customs and Border Protection.
The incident is being investigated by federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The cocaine was found in a boat off the coast of Puerto Rican. It's worth $2 million, according to the Customs and Border Protection. The Puerto Rico forensics institute took the dead man.
There was a 104 percent increase in the seizures of cocaine in October. Seizures of fentanyl increased. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, a lethal dose of Fentanyl is 2mg.
Between 2020 and 2021 there was a decrease in the total amount of drug seizures.
There is an ongoing border crisis and record migrant crossings that correlate with increases in drug traffickers. Over 100,000 Americans die from drug overdoses every year, and drug deaths have been rising for two decades.
The Declaring War on the Cartels Act is going to be introduced by Dan Crenshaw. It would allow federal judges to impose stiff punishments for crimes of violence, controlled substance violations, false statements, and human traffickers.
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