The crew of the Tahoma, a 270-foot Coast Guard cutter, made the interdictions about 90 miles off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia.
Cutters are still stopping smugglers and seizing drugs, but the prosecutions of go-fast boat crews are dwindling in a realignment of federal resources. For the most part, people captured by the Coast ...
NORTH CHARLESTON — Four locally based Coast Guard ships contributed to record-breaking seizures of cocaine and other illegal drugs in 2025, mainly during patrols of the Caribbean and eastern Pacific ...
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The crew of a U.S. Coast Guard ship simultaneously intercepted three boats carrying illicit drugs in the Caribbean Sea, seizing over three tons of cocaine and stopping what the agency called a "triple ...