MIAMI – A Miami District Court Judge sitting in Key West, Fla., Tuesday, sentenced eight Cuban migrant smugglers to a combined total of more than 31 years of imprisonment pursuant to convictions in five separate cases and sentenced another defendant to six months imprisonment for failure to heave-to.
Details of the cases are as follows:
Geormani Hernandez [...]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – U.S. Coast Guard personnel aboard cutters and aircraft, working with their partners in the Caribbean Border Interagency Group (CBIG), Puerto Rico and with Dominican Republic Navy Law Enforcement authorities, made three drug interdictions in the Mona Passage Monday, detaining seven drug smugglers and seizing approximately 968 pounds of cocaine and [...]
The Senate today passed the “Integrated Deepwater Program Reform Act”. The Act, which now must be reconciled with it’s House counterpart, restricts the use of private sector entities as a “lead systems integrator” and ensures “full and open competition” in procurements in the Deepwater Program which include the National Security Cutter and other vital assets [...]
Peter A Stinson at An Unofficial Coast Guard Blog has posted an important story for any Florida National Guard or Military Reservists. This is a program that every state should implement.
Seems the Sunshine State has set aside money — for reservists and national guard personnel who are on active duty — to help in [...]
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard rescued a 22 year-old male from an Ocean Tug about 60 miles southwest of Fourchon early this morning.
A watchstander at Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans received the call at 2:31 a.m., reporting that a crewman working aboard the Ocean Tug La Force had suffered a seizure.
Coast Guard Air [...]
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard and Washington Department of Ecology have suspended their pollution response efforts on the barge Shauna Kay that grounded at the Elliot Bay Marina today.
Internal inspections of the hull and tank of the barge revealed no leaks or damage after the Shauna Kay was moved to Pier 91. Olympic Tug [...]
SEATTLE – The Coast Guard, Washington Department of Ecology and Seattle Fire Department are responding to the grounding of the barge Shauna K at the Elliot Bay Marina today.
The barge was being towed by the tug Alyssa Ann, operated by Olympic Tug and Barge, at approximately 8:18 p.m. when strong winds broke one of its [...]