The U.S. Coast Guard cutter USCGC Munro seized over 20,000 pounds of cocaine from a single ship this week, the largest at-sea interdiction in nearly two decades.
The Munro made the seizure on Tuesday during counter-narcotics operations in the Eastern Pacific, south of Mexico, as part of Operation Pacific Viper.
Video footage shows Coast Guard crew pursuing a “go-fast” vessel and disabling it with a helicopter before boarding and seizing the drugs. It is unclear what happened to those on board the vessel.
Operation Pacific Viper ELIMINATES narco-terrorists in the Eastern Pacific.
On Tuesday, @USCG Cutter Munro interdicted over 20,000 pounds of cocaine in a single mission – more than 7.5 million potentially lethal doses.
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“Our maritime fighting force is leading America’s drug interdiction operations, protecting the Homeland, and keeping deadly drugs out of American communities,” the U.S. Coast Guard said in a statement.
The operation comes days after the U.S. Coast Guard confiscated approximately 3,715 pounds of cocaine, worth an estimated $28 million, from a vessel two miles east of Government Cut, a man-made shipping channel near Miami Beach and Fisher Island.
The U.S. government has recently intensified its fight against boats carrying drugs from Central and South America. Since September, U.S. forces have carried out 22 strikes, leaving nearly 90 people dead.
Where are the drugs now? It’s great the drugs were found, but the story isn’t over if the drugs weren’t destroyed. Paul Harvey’s gone. Where’s the rest of the story?
When all these illegal drugs are confiscated what is done with them
Eastern Pacific south of Mexico. So no way it could have come from Venezuela short of going through the Panama canal or circum-navigating the whole of S America (or pehaps N America).
Hence they shot the engines out not the people …
Stop the bleeding heart reports and investigate the number of overdose deaths every day. International criminals make you look like accomplices. We are smarter than that since the War on Drugs started during the Nixon years. Walter Cronkite is turning in his grave.