WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. officials have seized about seven tons of cocaine and arrested 11 people in two separate incidents involving speedboat smugglers off the coast of Mexico and Colombia, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday.
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The seizures represent about 10 percent of all the cocaine — 125,000 pounds — confiscated by the Coast Guard in 1999, said Lt. Cmmdr. Jeff Robertson of the Coast Guard.