The stash was removed from a "low-profile vessel" earlier this month in the Pacific Ocean.
The pickup truck driver told police after his arrest he had used both heroin and cocaine the morning of the crash.
The Navy/Coast Guard team seized 100 bales of cocaine — or 2,000 kilograms — aboard a low-profile, go-fast vessel in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
The cocaine was seized in eight operations by the crews of four cutters between mid-November and mid-January.
About 8,165 kilograms of the drug was offloaded from the cutter Bertholf.
One of the sailors already confessed to being a ticket flipper, according to his plea deal.
Authorities suspect the vessel could hold up to 5,000 kilos of cocaine.
Galician inlets have long been used by smugglers bringing cocaine by sea from South America into Europe.
The sailors bought cocaine, LSD and other drugs from two petty officers moonlighting as drug dealers.
A man who pleaded guilty to selling crack cocaine at a Massachusetts veterans’ hospital has avoided additional prison time.
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