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 ...

Coast Guard personnel have set procedures to follow when they're boarding suspected drug boats. Not every interdiction plays out the way they think it will, prompting changes in the moment. Weather, ...

The Coast Guard, a multi-mission military service within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), uses its resources—including assets such as vessels and aircraft—to conduct its drug and migrant ...

Dec. 6 (UPI) --The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Munro seized more than 10 tons of cocaine from a drug-running vessel south of Mexico in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Tuesday. The seizure from an open ...

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 U.S. Coast Guard didn't meet its drug interdiction goals for 10 years, in part because it redirected a bulk of its efforts toward migrant interdiction at sea, an independent government watchdog ...