SAN DIEGO — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) offloaded more than 13 tons of cocaine, with an estimated value of $335.8 million. Tuesday, November 19, 2024 in San Diego. The offload is a result of eleven separate suspected drug smuggling vessel interdictions or events off the coasts of Mexico and Central and Leer másCoast Guard offloaded more than 13 tons of cocaine in San Diego[…]
SAN DIEGO — A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk aircrew and three Cutter crews search for survivors from a boat fire Thursday morning near Carlsbad. Coast Guard Sector San Diego watchstanders received several reports of a boat, 50 feet in length, on fire approximately seven nautical miles off the Carlsbad coast around 9 a.m. Coast Guard Leer másCoast Guard crews search for survivors from a boat fire near Carlsbad[…]
ALAMEDA, Calif. — The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752) returned to their homeport Friday following a combined 105-day deployment to Alaska and their biannual shipboard training off the coast of San Diego. Stratton’s crew, along with an embarked MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew from Air Station Kodiak, patrolled the Bering Sea up to Leer másCoast Guard Cutter Stratton returns home following 105-day deployment[…]
ALAMEDA, California — The Coast Guard Cutter Munro (WMSL 755) returned home to Alameda Sunday after a 78-day deployment during which they seized an estimated $115 million worth of cocaine from suspected smugglers in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. The crew patrolled known drug-transit zones of the Eastern Pacific between late December and mid-January, interdicting three Leer másCoast Guard cutter Munro returns home from Eastern Pacific counterdrug patrol, $115M in cocaine seized[…]