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The Coast Guard Cutter Confidence seizes 1,090 lbs of cocaine from smuggling vessel off Central American coast

The Coast Guard Cutter Confidence seizes 1,090 lbs of cocaine from smuggling vessel off Central American coast. MH-65 Dolphin. HH-65 Dolphin.
Archive image: the Coast Guard Cutter Confidence (WMEC 619) conducts helicopter operations while underway on patrol.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by PA2 David M. SAntos.

ALAMEDA, Calif. – A 54-year-old Coast Guard Cutter Confidence seized approximately 1,090 pounds of suspected cocaine in mid-May with an estimated value of $18.7 million from a go-fast vessel in international waters of the Pacific Ocean off Central America.

A maritime patrol aircraft spotted a suspected smuggling vessel and diverted the crew aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Confidence (WMEC-619) to the go-fast vessel’s position.​

Once on scene, the USCGC Confidence crew initiated a pursuit of the suspected smugglers who began throwing contraband overboard. Once the suspected smugglers complied with orders to stop their boat, the Coast Guard crew boarded the vessel and discovered approximately 1,090 pounds of cocaine. Three suspected smugglers aboard the vessel were detained.​

USCGC Confidence. MH-65 Dolphin. HH-65 Dolphin.
GONAIVES, Haiti – Crewmembers from Coast Guard Cutter Confidence, home-ported in Port Canaveral, Fla., launch a small boat with Coast Guard District Seven Transport System recovery assist team to surgery the port Nov. 7, 2010 after Hurricane Tomas hit the island of Haiti. The confidence became a staging platform for the MTSRAT and helped survey the channels for possible obstruction to navigation.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Sabrina Elgammal.

On April 1, U.S. Southern Command began enhanced counter-narcotics operations in the Western Hemisphere to disrupt the flow of drugs in support of Presidential National Security Objectives. Numerous U.S. agencies from the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security cooperated in the effort to combat transnational organized crime. The Coast Guard, Navy, Customs and Border Protection, FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with allied and international partner agencies, play a role in counter-drug operations.​

The fight against drug cartels in the Eastern Pacific Ocean requires unity of effort in all phases from detection, monitoring and interdictions, to criminal prosecutions by international partners and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices in districts across the nation. The law enforcement phase of counter-smuggling operations in the Eastern Pacific Ocean is conducted under the authority of the 11th Coast Guard District, headquartered in Alameda. The interdictions, including the actual boardings, are led and conducted by members of the U.S. Coast Guard.​

The Coast Guard Cutter Confidence seizes 1,090 lbs of cocaine from smuggling vessel off Central American coast.
Suspected cocaine is shown on the deck of the Coast Guard Cutter Confidence in international waters of the Pacific Ocean off Central America in mid-May 2020. The Coast Guard seized approximately 1,090 pounds of suspected cocaine in mid-May with an estimated value of $18.7 million from a go-fast vessel.
U.S.Coast Guard photo.
The Coast Guard Cutter Confidence seizes 1,090 lbs of cocaine from smuggling vessel off Central American coast.
A panga is shown in the eastern Pacific Ocean off Central America in mid-May 2020. The Coast Guard crew seized approximately 1,090 pounds of suspected cocaine in mid-May with an estimated value of $18.7 million from a go-fast vessel in international waters of the Pacific Ocean off Central America.
U.S. Coast Guard Photo.
The Coast Guard Cutter Confidence seizes 1,090 lbs of cocaine from smuggling vessel off Central American coast.
The Coast Guard Cutter Confidence is shown on a patrol in April 2018. The Confidence is a 210-foot medium endurance cutter homeported out of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
U.S. Coast Guard photo.

The Coast Guard Cutter Confidence is homeported out of Cape Canaveral, Florida and was commissioned in 1966.

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