USS Gravely Captures Hundreds of Pounds of Cocaine Worth over $13 Million

Coast Guard intercepts $211.3 million in cocaine

The cutter and its helicopter crew pushed through storms to capture drugs being smuggled to relay points in the eastern Pacific.

Norfolk-based USS Gravely captures hundreds of pounds of cocaine worth over $13 million

The Norfolk-based USS Gravely last week seized more than 850 pounds of narcotics while in the Caribbean Sea. The ship’s search and seizure team had boarded a “vessel of interest” on May 25 and found 19 bales of cocaine, according to a news release from the Navy. A spokesperson for the Navy said the drugs had a street value of $13.6 million. “Seamless integration of U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard maritime assets (are) integral to border protectio…

USS Gravely captures hundreds of pounds of cocaine worth over $13 million

Coast Guard Seizes 28,000 Pounds of Cocaine - American Faith

The U.S. Coast Guard made a massive drug bust this month, offloading 28,000 pounds of cocaine worth $211.3 million at Port Everglades on Thursday. The haul was the result of four major interdictions in the Eastern Pacific, led by the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Thetis and an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter team. The seizures took place on May 3, 5, 6, and 10. On May 3, a maritime patrol aircraft spotted two suspicious vessels 170 miles off Mexico, l…

U.S. Coast Guard Offloads 28,500 Pounds of Cocaine

The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded a whopping 28,000 pounds of cocaine at Port Everglades on Thursday.

Nearly four tons of drugs were seized in the Caribbean Sea in May by the Armed Forces in the West Indies during two drug trafficking operations. A new operation by the Armed Forces in the West Indies resulted in the seizure of nearly four tons of narcotics in the Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean waters during the month of May. As part of the drug trafficking operation called "Carib Royal", this action involved a National Navy vessel, which intercept…