Dominican Republic says it seized cocaine that was on speed boat destroyed by US Navy

Authorities in the Dominican Republic say they have confiscated some of the cocaine transported by a speedboat that was destroyed recently by the U.S. Navy, as the Trump administration carries out a controversial anti narcotics mission in the southern Caribbean. Officials said the boat was destroyed about 80 nautical miles south of Isla Beata, a small island that belongs to the Dominican Republic. They said that the Dominican’s Republic navy worked in conjunction with U.S. authorities to locate the speedboat which was allegedly trying to use the nation as a “bridge” to transport cocaine to the United States.