Coast Guard, CBP Intercept migrants off Orange County

Coast Guard Cutter Forrest Rednour file photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class DaVonte’ Marrow.
SAN PEDRO, Calif. – The Coast Guard intercepted a sport-fisher carrying 15 undocumented non-citizens attempting to enter the United States off the coast of Orange County, California, on April 20, 2023.
The Coast Guard Cutter Forrest Rednour spotted the overloaded 36-ft vessel around 4:30 p.m., as it...
Coast Guard Cutter Forrest Rednour returns from drug patrol

A pile of seized drugs, estimated to be $96 million, is transfered off the Coast Guard Cutter Forest Rednour in San Diego, Sept. 24, 2021. U.S.Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Adam Stanton.
SAN PEDRO, Calif. – The Coast Guard Cutter Forrest Rednour returned home on Sept. 26, following a 32-day patrol.
The crew disrupted illegal narcotics smuggling, seizing more than 5,000 pounds of...
Coast Guard Cutter Alert returns to Oregon following $54 million cocaine seizure

Coast Guard Cutter Alert file photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nicole J. Groll
ASTORIA, Ore. — The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Alert returned to their homeport of Astoria Friday following a 10,700 nautical mile, 65-day, multi-mission patrol, resulting in the interdiction of nearly 4,000 pounds of cocaine worth approximately $54 million.
Alert’s crew conducted counterdrug operations in international...
Coast Guard conducts multiple rescues across Northern California in May

Coast Guard Cutter Forrest Rednour file photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class DaVonte’ Marrow.
MCKINLEYVILLE, Calif. — Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay crews in Northern California assisted 15 vessels since the beginning of May in the waters near Trinidad, Humboldt Bay, Eel River, Cape Mendocino and Shelter Cove.
Coast Guard Station Humboldt Bay and Coast Guard Station Noyo River boat crews assisted...
Coast Guard Cutter Forrest Rednour returns to homeport following first drug bust

Coast Guard Cutter Forrest Rednour file photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class DaVonte’ Marrow.
SAN PEDRO, Calif. — The crew of a San Pedro-based Coast Guard cutter returned to their homeport Saturday following a two-week patrol that included the ship’s first drug bust.
The crew of the recently commissioned Coast Guard Cutter Forrest Rednour interdicted approximately 1,000 pounds of marijuana from...
Coast Guard Cutter Forrest Rednour commissioned in San Pedro

The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Forrest Rednour mans the rail during the cutter’s commissioning ceremony, Nov. 8, 2018, in San Pedro, California. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Fireman Taylor Bacon)
SAN PEDRO, Calif. — The Coast Guard commissioned the first California-based 154-foot Fast Response Cutter in San Pedro, Thursday.
The Coast Guard Cutter Forrest Rednour is the first of four Sentinel-Class...
Coast Guard Cutter Forrest Rednour to be commissioned Thursday

Coast Guard Cutter Forrest Rednour file photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class DaVonte’ Marrow.
SAN PEDRO, Calif. — The Coast Guard is scheduled to commission the first California-based 154-foot Fast Response Cutter in San Pedro, Thursday.
The Forrest Rednour is the first of four Sentinel-Class Fast Response Cutters (FRC) to be homeported at Base Los Angeles-Long Beach.
Three additional FRCs are...
Coast Guard’s first California-based Fast Response Cutter arrives in San Pedro

The Coast Guard Cutter Forrest Rednour, arrives in the Channel of San Pedro, California, Aug. 11, 2018. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class DaVonte’ Marrow.
SAN PEDRO, Calif. — The Coast Guard’s first California-based Sentinel-Class Fast Response Cutter arrived in San Pedro, Saturday morning.
The Coast Guard Cutter Forrest Rednour arrived at its new homeport at Coast Guard...
Four new Coast Guard cutters bound for California duty

Coast Guard Fast Response Cutter file photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Mark Barney.
SAN PEDRO, Calif. — The Coast Guard plans to base four of its new Sentinel-Class Fast Response Cutters (FRC) in Southern California within the next year.
The Coast Guard Cutter Forrest Rednour is slated to arrive this summer with formal commissioning in the fall. Three additional FRCs are scheduled to arrive and be...