Coast Guard/Navy Team stop $7-million cocaine shipment

Coast Guard/Navy Team stop $7-million cocaine shipment
SAN DIEGO – A San Diego-based U. S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment embarked and the crew of USS Curts (FFG-38) stopped a fishing vessel carrying approximately 627 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean Oct. 6. While on a routine patrol flight, the Curts’ SH-60B helicopter crew initially sighted the suspicious fishing vessel with five pangas in tow in international waters off the...

Coast Guard Cutter Morgenthau returns from counter-drug patrol with 4 tons of cocaine

Coast Guard Cutter Morgenthau returns from counter-drug patrol with 4 tons of cocaine
SAN DIEGO – The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Morgenthau recently returned from a counter-drug patrol in the Eastern Pacific Ocean with more than four tons of cocaine interdicted by a variety of U.S. patrol assets between late June and mid-August.  The illegal drugs were seized, and 22 suspected smugglers detained, in international waters off the coasts of Central and South America in five separate cases...

Coast Guard and Navy team up to seize $9-million in cocaine

Coast Guard and Navy team up to seize $9-million in cocaine
Crews from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Morgenthau (WHEC 722) and the guided-missile frigate USS Curts (FFG 38), with an embarked Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET), stopped a 25-foot “go-fast” vessel carrying more than 750 pounds of drugs in the Eastern Pacific Ocean Aug. 14. While on a routine patrol flight, Morgenthau’s deployed helicopter crew initially sighted the suspicious “go-fast”...