KEY WEST, Fla. — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC) Mohawk (WMEC 913) returned to their home port in Key West following a 70-day counter-drug patrol in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. March 16, 2025. Mohawk…
MIAMI – The crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stone offloaded approximately 45,600 pounds (20,7 tons) of illicit drugs worth more than $517.5 million at Port Everglades. Thursday, March 20, 2025. The seized contraband was…
WASHINGTON — The Coast Guard achieved a major milestone this week in drug interdiction with more than 36 tons, since January 21, being smuggled by drug cartels in an attempt to reach the United States.…
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida. — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Venturous (WMEC 625) and a HITRON detachment returned to home following a 40-day anti-drug patrol in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Venturous’ crew deployed in support…
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The crew of the USCGC Escanaba (WMEC 907) and a HITRON MH-65 Dolphin detachment returned home following a 46-day anti-drug patrol in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Wednesday, August 28, 2024. While deployed,…
ASTORIA, Ore. – The Coast Guard Cutter Alert (WMEC 630) crew and a HITRON MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew seized almost 5 tons in cocaine in Eastern Pacific Ocean. The Cutter’s crew returned to their homeport…
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Coast Guard Cutter Resolute (WMEC 620) crew and an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew from HITRON returned from a 60-day counterdrug patrol and offloaded approximately $55 million worth of illicit narcotics in…
MIAMI – A Coast Guard crew’s airborne use of force to stop a non-compliant vessel suspected of smuggling illicit narcotics during anti-drug operation in the Caribbean Sea resulted in a fatality, Jan. 2, 2024. Two other…
Story by Ensign Jordan Sykes, U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area PENSACOLA, Fla. — The crew of USCGC Diligence (WMEC 616) returned to homeport in Pensacola after a 52-day anti-drug patrol in the Caribbean Sea in…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The USCGC Confidence (WMEC 619) and a HITRON detachment returned home following a 62-day anti-drug patrol to the Caribbean Sea. September 20, 2023. The Cutter Confidence has its homeport in Cape Canaveral…