Coast Guard detains 6, confiscates over 5K pounds of cocaine in …
Dec 20, 2023 · Throughout the operation, crews recovered 5,800 pounds of cocaine and detained six suspected narcotics traffickers. Crewmembers also helped rescue five fishermen from Ecuador after they were ...
Seattle-based Coast Guard returns after seizing nearly six tons of cocaine
Jun 30, 2015 · During the deployment, law enforcement officers aboard Midgett interdicted seven drug-laden “panga” vessels in international waters, seized more than 12,100 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated...
U.S. Coast Guard seized 9 tons of cocaine from drug ... - CBS News
Dec 7, 2023 · The U.S. Coast Guard seized over nine tons of cocaine drug smuggling vessels in the Atlantic Ocean last month, officials said. The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche on Wednesday offloaded...
U.S. Coast Guard seizes $50.8M worth of cocaine - FOX 13 Seattle
May 7, 2024 · After completing a 54-day mission patrolling the Eastern Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Coast Guard reported saving a person's life and stopping the trafficking of cocaine valued at approximately $50.8 million.
Coast Guard cutter returns after seizing tons of cocaine
Jun 30, 2015 · In more than two months at sea, law-enforcement officers aboard the Midgett seized more than 12,100 pounds of cocaine and arrested 22 suspected smugglers from seven vessels in international...
Drug sub carrying 7 tons of cocaine busted - seattlepi.com
Sep 19, 2008 · The crews of the Seattle-based Coast Guard cutter Midgett and a Navy maritime patrol plane teamed up to catch a drug-running submarine carrying 7 tons of cocaine worth about $196 million,...
B.C. fisherman held in drug bust again | The Seattle Times
Nov 11, 2011 · A drug-smuggling Canadian fisherman who mysteriously escaped prosecution after being caught off Washington's coast in 2001 with 2½ tons of cocaine in his boat's hold — one of the largest drug...
Have people forgotten the crack cocaine fueled 80s and early 90s?
Jul 31, 2023 · The 80s and early 90s of Seattle sucked, period, end of story. The Kingdome area looked like some Mad Max burned out city (heck, even shady businesses like strip clubs wouldn't go there). In my teenage years we'd test our manhood by driving to …
Coast Guard boats seize $721 million worth of cocaine since …
Jan 25, 2018 · U.S. Coast Guard boats have seized 47,000 pounds of cocaine in the Pacific since November — most of it off the coasts of Central and South America.
Historic seizure: Coast Guard offloads $1.4B of cocaine, marijuana
Aug 5, 2021 · Coast Guard officials said it seized 59,700 pounds of cocaine and 1,430 pounds of marijuana in multiple operations in the Eastern Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, WFLA reported. Most of...
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