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.
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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 Cutter Harriet Lane returns home after large drug bust
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane are scheduled to return home to Portsmouth Friday following a five week patrol.
Coast Guard seizes 6,000 pounds of cocaine
MIAMI – Crewmembers from the Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane seized nearly 6,000 pounds of cocaine from a St. Vincent and the Grenadines-flagged vessel in the Caribbean Sea, Dec. 3.
Coast Guard Cutter Valiant returns home after successful counter-drug patrol
MIAMI – Coast Guard Cutter Valiant, a 210-foot Medium Endurance Cutter homeported in Miami Beach, Fla., is returning home Thursday after stopping nearly five tons (9,200 pounds) of cocaine from entering the U.S., following the disruption of four separate drug smuggling events in the Caribbean Sea, during the month of October.