{"id":38585,"date":"2025-07-16T11:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/shootout-on-high-seas-leads-to-seizure-of-2300-pounds-of-cocaine-3-suspects-killed-off-coast-of-haiti\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T11:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:50:10","slug":"shootout-on-high-seas-leads-to-seizure-of-2300-pounds-of-cocaine-3-suspects-killed-off-coast-of-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/shootout-on-high-seas-leads-to-seizure-of-2300-pounds-of-cocaine-3-suspects-killed-off-coast-of-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Shootout on high seas leads to seizure of 2,300 pounds of cocaine, 3 suspects killed off coast of Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Three suspected drug traffickers were killed in an exchange of fire as police in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/haiti\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Haiti<\/a> confiscated more than 2,300 pounds of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/cocaine\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">cocaine<\/a>\u00a0aboard a boat, officials said Tuesday, in a rare drug seizure in the troubled Caribbean country.<\/p>\n<p>The police raid took place off the coast of northern Haiti near Tortue Island where traffickers are suspected of transferring drugs, Port-de-Paix prosecutor Jeir Pierre told Radio Cara\u00efbes on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre said police have long postponed any action at that location because of a lack of resources, but noted that a regional police director recently requested a boat to use around Tortue Island.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have had this area in our sights for a long time,&#8221; Pierre said.<\/p>\n<p>Police approached a suspected drug trafficking boat on Sunday and ordered the suspects aboard to raise their hands, but they did not comply and instead opened fire at the officers, Pierre said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers returned fire, with two suspected drug traffickers jumping into the ocean and later dying. A third suspected drug trafficker died on shore while a fourth one, from the Bahamas, was injured and later arrested, Pierre said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said on social media that one of suspects who died was a man from Jamaica. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pnh_officiel\/status\/1944701290376040694\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Police also released images<\/a> on social media of the seized cocaine. The photos showed officers next to stacks of drugs, with some of the packages labeled &#8220;Rolex&#8221; on the front.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-twitter-tweet embed--float-none embed--size-medium lazyload\" data-require=\"third-party\/twitter-widgets\">\n<div class=\"embed__content-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"ht\" dir=\"ltr\">Plizy\u00e8 endividi tonbe nan echanj kout bal ak f\u00f2s l\u00f2d yo, pami yo, yon res\u00f2tisan Jamayiken ki pote non Antony Jimmy, yon bato ak 1045 kilo kokayine sezi, nan kad yon operasyon Polis Nasyonal Dayiti mennen dimanch 13 jiy\u00e8 2025, sou zile Lat\u00f2ti, Depatman N\u00f2dw\u00e8s. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I3es0D0gKC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/I3es0D0gKC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PNH (@pnh_officiel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pnh_officiel\/status\/1944701290376040694?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">July 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Pierre said no Haitian police officers were injured.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government has previously noted that powerful people in Haiti are involved in the country&#8217;s drug trade.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2024, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned former Haitian President Michel Martelly, accusing him of abusing his influence to facilitate the trafficking of drugs, including cocaine, destined for the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many of Haiti&#8217;s political and business elites have long been involved in drug trafficking and have been linked to the gangs responsible for the violence that has destabilized Haiti,&#8221; the Treasury Department said.<\/p>\n<p>Haiti has long served as a transit hub for the movement of cocaine and other illicit drugs to the U.S. and Dominican Republic, according to a <a href=\"chrome-extension:\/\/efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj\/https:\/www.unodc.org\/documents\/data-and-analysis\/toc\/Haiti_assessment_UNODC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">report<\/a> by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unodc.org\/unodc\/en\/frontpage\/2024\/April\/haiti_-gangs-have-more-firepower-than-the-police.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.N. office has also noted<\/a> that some of Haiti&#8217;s gangs have bigger arsenals than the police as they have become &#8220;stronger, richer and more autonomous.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/boat-shootout-cocaine-suspects-killed-haiti\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three suspected drug traffickers were killed in an exchange of fire as police in Haiti confiscated more than 2,300 pounds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1839,2403],"class_list":["post-38585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-cocaine","tag-haiti"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shootout on high seas leads to seizure of 2,300 pounds of cocaine, 3 suspects killed off coast of Haiti - World News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Police said two suspected drug traffickers jumped into the ocean and later died. 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