By Associated Press - Monday, March 3, 2014

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - The U.S. Coast Guard has dropped off more than $12 million of cocaine in St. Petersburg.

Coast Guard officials tell the Tampa Bay Times (https://bit.ly/1eHQCtq ) that the cocaine was seized off the waters of northeast Panama in early February.

The Coast Guard offloaded the drugs early Sunday at the agency’s St. Petersburg sector headquarters.

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Information from: Tampa Bay Times (St. Petersburg, Fla.), https://www.tampabay.com.

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