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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Coast Guard said this week that its crews intercepted more cocaine loads at sea than at any time in the service’s history ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. Coast Guard members transfer bales of cocaine from a suspected drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean on April 17 ...

A Coast Guard crew seized a record 22,052 pounds of cocaine from one vessel.

The Coast Guard’s increased focus on capturing migrants at sea in recent years led to a drop-off in drug seizures and hampered its ability to conduct its other missions, according to a new government ...

new video loaded: How the U.S. Coast Guard Fights Drug Smuggling at Sea transcript New York Times reporters spent two days with the Coast Guard’s drug interdiction teams to see how they stop suspected ...

On Thursday, Port Everglades once again turned into a front-row seat for the drug war at sea, as the U.S. Coast Guard and ...

The Coast Guard has seized more than 150,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean since August as part of Operation Pacific Viper, the agency said Tuesday. The illicit drugs were nabbed in ...

U.S. Coast Guard members transfer bales of cocaine from a suspected drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean on April 17, 2025. (PO3 Austin Wiley/U.S. Coast Guard) The U.S. Coast Guard ...

The announcement comes the same week federal auditors in the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report concluding the Coast Guard's focus on stopping maritime migration in the Florida ...

The U.S. Coast Guard said this week that its crews intercepted more cocaine loads at sea than at any time in the service’s history — a record high of over half-a-million pounds of narcotics in a ...