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The U.S. Coast Guard seized and offloaded over $63 million of cocaine in Florida on Thursday, including from an interdiction that involved gunfire and a vessel catching on fire and sinking.
A narco-submarine captured by the Peruvian Navy in December 2019 [1]. A narco-submarine (also called a drug sub or narco-sub) is a type of custom ocean-going, self-propelled, semi-submersible or fully-submersible vessel built by (or for) drug smugglers.
MSC Gayané in July 2019. On June 18, 2019, United States federal authorities seized 39,525 pounds (nearly twenty tons) of cocaine [1] [2] [3] with a street value estimated at $1.3 billion (equivalent to more than $1.6 billion in 2025) [4] [3] at the Port of Philadelphia's Packer Marine Terminal.
The first narco submarine was not intercepted until 2006 by the U.S. Coast Guard off of Costa Rica holding 3.5 tonnes of cocaine. Despite rumours of submarines being used by cartels in the 1990s, this was the first detection. [12] The number of narco submarine incidents has risen in recent years. The US Coast Guard reported 35 in 2018 and 36 in ...
The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted a homemade submarine and seized a cocaine haul worth at least $181 million off the coast of Mexico, officials said. The bust last month is the biggest of its kind ...
The Coast Guard also noted at the start of the hearing that the Titan never underwent an independent review, which is standard practice in the industry. Titan malfunctioned just days before doomed ...
It was the largest maritime drug bust in US history. On July 21, 2005, Diaz became the first American of Hispanic descent to command a High endurance cutter (the U.S. Coast Guard’s largest cutter class). [ 2 ]
Operation Panama Express is a long-running Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF), comprising participants from the Coast Guard Investigative Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida.