Authorities in the Dominican Republic said they seized part of the cocaine that were transported by a speedboat destroyed by the American navy.
It comes when the Trump government carries out a controversial anti-Narcotics mission in the southern Caribbean.
In a press conference, the National Directorate of the Dominican Republic for Drug Control said that the 377 packages of cocaine repaired 1,000 kilograms of the drug.
Officials said the boat was destroyed about 80 nautical kilometers south of Isla Beata, a small island that belongs to the Dominican Republic.
They said that the Dominican's Republic Navy collaborated with the American authorities to find the speedboat who reportedly tried to moor in the Dominican Republic and use the nation as a “bridge” to transport cocaine to the United States.
A map of Isla Beata:
“This is the first time in history that the United States and the Dominican Republic perform a joint operation against Narco -terrorism in the Caribbean,” the directorate said in a statement.
In August, the US sent eight warships and a submarine to the southern Caribbean, in what the Trump government said, was a mission to combat drug trafficking.
The White House says that the Flotilla has destroyed three speed boats that have been wearing drugs so far in individual strikes that have killed more than a dozen people on board the ships.
President Donald Trump said that the American troops have launched a strike against a ship (photo) that is said to have narcotic drugs in the American southern command area. The strike killed three, said Trump (President Donald Trump/Truth Social)
Human rights groups have said that the strikes on the boats come down extra judicial murders, and on Friday two democratic senators introduced a resolution in the congress that wants to block the administration to perform further strikes.
The Trump government says that at least two of the boats who have sunk from Venezuela, whose president is often described by civil servants of the White House as drug trafficking and leader of a gang known as the sun's cartel.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro denies the charges and has described the American navy building in the Caribbean as an attack on his country.
