Police in the Bahamas arrested eight Americans and seized weapons, ammunition and a "considerable sum of undeclared cash" in a multiagency operation on Tuesday.

The Royal Bahamas Police Force said in a news release that officers from the Alice Town Police Station worked with the Bahamas Customs Department to search a vessel docked at a port on Bimini, a chain of western islands. The officers were "acting on intelligence," the RBPF said, but they did not specify what information that included.

The officers found three "high-powered weapons" and 11 other firearms, as well as the undeclared cash and a "substantial quality of ammunition" on the boat, police said.

The 10 occupants aboard the boat — eight Americans, one South African and one Guyanese person — were taken into custody, the RB

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