PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. – Crewmembers from the Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant worked with U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents and Turks and Caicos’ law-enforcement officials during a marijuana seizure from the Haitian freighter Miss Kristy in the Caribbean Sea March 2.
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Cutter Tahoma Returning to Maine from Haiti
KITTERY, MAINE – The Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma, based at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is scheduled to return home today after a 56-day patrol in the Caribbean, which included providing support to Haiti after the Jan. 12 earthquake.
First Coast Guard Cutter in Haiti Returning Home on Thursday
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard Cutter Forward is scheduled to return to their homeport of Portsmouth at 2 p.m. Thursday at Base Support Unit Portsmouth following a 52-day mission, which included assisting with Haitian disaster relief operations.
Coast Guard helps Bahamians locate more than 360 pounds of cocaine and 46 pounds of marijuana
MIAMI – Two law-enforcement boarding teams from the Coast Guard Cutter Forward assisted Royal Bahamian Police Force officials and U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency agents Wednesday in locating more than 360 pounds of cocaine and 46 pounds of marijuana hidden within a Haitian-flagged vessel.
Coast Guard Announces A Successful Year of Drug Seizures
CLEARWATER, Fla. — The Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen at a gathering with officials from CBP, FBI, JIATF-S, U.S. Attorney’s Office, announced today another successful year for drug seizures at Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater.
Suspected smuggler dies after boat, cocaine seized in Eastern Pacific Ocean
ALAMEDA, Calif. – A suspected cocaine smuggler died in Guatemala Tuesday following the seizure of his boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean by the U.S. Coast Guard. The man was medevaced to Guatemala City when he sustained possible engine fragment or shrapnel injuries after shots were fired to disable the boat’s engines as it [...]
Coast Guard recovers drugs from South Padre Island
SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas — Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection crews recovered bundles of marijuana that washed ashore on South Padre Island Thursday afternoon.