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Coast Guard crew interdicts $7 million of cocaine, marijuana
MIAMI — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous interdicted more than 245 pounds of cocaine and 145 pounds of marijuana during their recent patrol of the Caribbean Sea. While underway April 1, the crew of the Vigorous took part in an at-sea interdiction of a 160-foot motor vessel Fortuna with eight suspected drug smugglers carrying more than 145 pounds of marijuana and 245 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated value of $7 million. The detainees … Read entire article »
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Coast Guard interdicts 600 lbs of marijuana, hash
MIAMI — The Coast Guard interdicted approximately 600 pounds of marijuana and hash, with an estimated street value of $544,200, off the coast of Miami Sunday. A Coast Guard Air Station Miami helicopter crew spotted a 15-foot center console boat with two people aboard heading westbound. Boatcrews from Coast Guard Station Miami Beach, Fla., and Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale, Fla., were launched to interdict the vessel. Once on scene, the Coast Guard boatcrew safely stopped the … Read entire article »
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Coast Guard, partner agencies interdict 5th Western Caribbean drug sub
MIAMI — The crews of the Coast Guard Cutter Decisive, Coast Guard Cutter Pea Island, Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATF-S), and the Honduran Navy interdicted a drug smuggling, self-propelled semi-submersible (SPSS) vessel in the Western Caribbean Sea March 30. SPSS vessels are used regularly to transport illegal narcotics in the Eastern Pacific, and this interdiction is only the fifth Coast Guard interdiction of an SPSS in the Caribbean. The Coast Guard’s first interdiction of a … Read entire article »
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Coast Guard captures 6 smugglers, seize $3.2 million dollar cocaine and heroin shipment off Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Caribbean Border Interagency Group (CBIG) law enforcement authorities, working in support of the Caribbean Corridor Strike Force (CCSF), arrested six Dominican smugglers, seizing a boat and a drug shipment of approximately 322 pounds of cocaine and 19 pounds of heroin during a maritime interdiction Thursday evening off the northern coast of Dorado, Puerto Rico. The drug shipment was estimated to have a street value of over $3.2 million dollars. “The outstanding efforts … Read entire article »
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Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant and other agencies seize drugs in Great Inagua
PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. — The U. S. Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant, assisting Bahamas law enforcement officials, discovered 480 pounds of marijuana and assorted prescription drugs on board the motor vessel Issac which was apprehended on the Bahamian Island of Great Inagua April 4, 2012. At the request of the Government of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, cutter Vigilant’s boarding team conducted a joint boarding of the 40-foot vessel with the coordination of Coast Guard Operation Bahamas, … Read entire article »
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Coast Guard offloads 3,500 pounds of cocaine in Miami
MIAMI — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Northland offloaded 3,500 pounds of cocaine at Base Miami Beach, Fla., Friday afternoon. Northland crewmembers confiscated the drugs—54 bales of cocaine, worth a total wholesale value of $43,254,000—from a 35-foot go-fast vessel in the Caribbean Sea March 3. While on patrol in the Caribbean Sea, Northland’s embarked helicopter crew from the Coast Guard Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron (HITRON), based in Jacksonville, Fla., spotted a go-fast vessel with four … Read entire article »
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