The United States Coast Guard saw big results in 2015, highlighted by a record-high number of narcotics-related seizures.

Coast Guard personnel interdict a suspected drug smuggling vessel in the Eastern Pacific Ocean on March 4, 2025. Photo: Petty Officer 2nd Class Max Hanfland / U.S. Coast Guard via DVIDS / Public ...

New York Times reporters spent two days with the Coast Guard’s drug interdiction teams to see how they stop suspected drug ...

Coast Guard personnel have set procedures to follow when they're boarding suspected drug boats. Not every interdiction plays out the way they think it will, prompting changes in the moment. Weather, ...

Dec. 6 (UPI) --The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Munro seized more than 10 tons of cocaine from a drug-running vessel south of Mexico in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Tuesday. The seizure from an open ...

The U.S. Coast Guard offloaded more than 49,000 pounds of illicit cocaine—worth over $362 million—at Port Everglades on Wednesday, Nov. 19. The narcotics were the result of 15 separate interdictions ...

US Coast Guard helicopter pilots and precision marksmen are constantly training and evolving their strategies. The squadrons are instrumental to the drug interdiction process, hunting drug boats from ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has seized more than 150,000 pounds of cocaine off the west coast of North America since early August, the service said Tuesday. “Operation Pacific Viper” has been directed at ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Coast Guard cutter Munro seized more than 20,000 pounds of cocaine in a single drug interdiction mission Tuesday, the largest seizure a national security cutter had completed involving ...