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$5 MILLION COKE SEIZURE! On Jan. 28, the Coast Guard Investigative Service received a report of a trawler towing a domestic barge off the coast of Puerto Rico with witnesses reporting multiple bundles being thrown overboard and a man jumping into the water. San Juan Marine Unit deployed a Coastal Interceptor Vessel crew to assist the Coast Guard in the search. By 8 a.m., authorities had recovered the individual from the water. The man, identified as a Dominican Republic national with no legal status to be or remain in the United States, was taken into custody. Marine Interdiction Agents then recovered bales of suspected cocaine weighing nearly 790 lbs. from the water and the barge. Both the contraband and the detained individual were brought to San Juan for processing. The U.S. Coast Guard and the CBP Marine unit transferred custody of the subject and the seized narcotics to the Homeland Security Task Force in San Juan. The task force will conduct further investigation and handle all legal proceedings