The seizure took place in the Department of Gracias a Dios according to police spokesman Leonel Sauceda, with help from the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

The drug traffickers were preparing to load the drug onto three speedboats when the police and National Drug Enforcement Agency (DNLCN) teams arrived at the scene, he said. An exchange of gunfire proceeded, but no one was injured. The speedboats and two jet skis that belonged to the drug traffickers were destroyed by the authorities, and the cocaine was transported to Tegucigalpa by helicopter.

The police have launched a search for the small plane that brought the drugs to Brus Laguna from South America.