Cocaine worth more than $1.4m has been found on a passenger ferry serving Puerto Rico.

The US Coast Guard (USCG) said 125 pounds of the drug were seized aboard the 47-metre Isleno (built 2004) on Friday.

After passengers had disembarked, a USCG team patrolled the Fajardo ferry terminal and located two suitcases in plain view on the ship.

Fifty wrapped packages of suspected contraband were found in those suitcases.

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