Speedboat destroyed by U.S. Navy held 1,000 kilos of cocaine, Dominican Republic says

Authorities in the Dominican Republic said Sunday they have confiscated some of the cocaine transported by a speedboat that was destroyed recently by the U.S. Navy, in what the Caribbean nation called the first operation of its kind.

In a news conference, the Dominican Republic's National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD) said it recovered 377 packages of cocaine from the boat which was allegedly carrying 1,000 kilograms, or more than 2,200 pounds, of the drug. The drugs were recovered after "an aerial military strike by the United States against a speedboat of narcoterrorists," the DNCD said in a statement.