The US Coast Guard has discharged a record 38 tonnes of cocaine and marijuana on Monday, worth about $ 470 million.
The agency reported that £ 61,740 cocaine and £ 14,400 marijuana was the biggest discharge of narcotic drugs through the history of the Coastal Service.
The US Coast Guard Hamilton crew member plastic wraps drugs when 2025 August 25
“Looking at this, the potential doses of 23 million cocaine, seized by the US Coast Guard and our partners, are sufficient to fatally overdose by all the Florida states, emphasizing the great threat that the drug trafficking for our nation posed,” the international drug trade said. “
The Coast Guard Service was not one of the joint mission of the working group. The US Navy, US Customs and Border Guard Air and Maritime Operations and a ship from the Royal Netherlands Navy also participated in patrols.
However, most of the 19 seas were performed by sailors from the coastal protection cutter Hamilton, a ship that brought home smuggling on Monday.
“The team Hamilton and our partners have been working extremely hard for the past few months to protect American society from the dangers of illegal drugs coming to the United States,” Captain John B. McWhite, a 418-foot ship commander. “The crews were interpreting 11 high -speed ships, detaining 34 suspected drug traffickers and confiscating a record £ 47,000 cocaine. The commitment and sacrifice of the members of our deployed service and their families must be celebrated.
The US Coastal Service Law Enforcement Squad for 408 crew crew with each other, about 87 miles north of Bonire, 2025. June 30 The NAV USS Cole crew supported the transfer, causing the Coast Guard Service about £ 2,425 cocaine.
According to the agency, some of the most prominent relationships are:
June 26th. Airocraws noticed two speed boat about 115 miles southeast of the Galapagos Islands Ecuador. After the Coastal Security Service helicopter forced them to stop using “air tactics”, it means shooting in ship engines or shooting round bows, boats stopped, the agency said. The boarding teams seized £ 8,800 cocaine, the Coast Guard said.
July 23 The Hamilton -based helicopter crew went after a fast boat going about 88 miles southeast of Socorro Island. The crew used tactics again to stop it. The boarding team then raid a boat that transported 9,160 cocaine cups, the Coast Guard said.
August 18 The Navy’s USS MINEAPOLIS SAINT Paul boarding team raised a fast boat that is about 130 miles of Jamaica. According to the Coast Guard Service, the boat cargo was £ 6,425 cocaine.
The 404 crew of the US Coast Guard Service is a suspicious ship approximately 52 miles north of Karabobob, Venezuela, 2025. August 2 Crew crew of the Royal Navy Navy and the incoming helicopter interval tactical squad. Marijuana, according to the coastal protection.
In its report, the Coast Guard said that 80 percent of the illegal drugs stopped in the United States were taken over on the high sea. The Eastern Pacific Patrol is a part of the ongoing coastal guard -led mission called Pacific Viper operations to stop the efforts of South American cocaine smuggling.