Even as U.S. Blows Up Boats, Coast Guard Captures Others at Sea

Cutters are still stopping smugglers and seizing drugs, but the prosecutions of go-fast boat crews are dwindling in a ...
Forbes

The Pentagon’s Long Struggle To Stop Drug Boats Without Killing

A Coast Guard helicopter sniper takes aim with a .50 caliber rifle in a training exercise to knock out a fast boat engine without injuring the crew Pete Hegseth has strongly defended the current ...
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Navy destroyer at southern border intercepts 3,439 pounds of cocaine

An Arleigh-Burke class destroyer recently sent to the southern border to support U.S. Northern Command intercepted a massive shipment of illegal drugs off the coast of Mexico on July 10. The Sampson, ...
AOL

Opinion - By land or sea, using the military for law enforcement raises red flags

On Sept. 2. President Trump, following an earlier secret directive, ordered the killing of 11 men on an alleged drug running boat in the southern Caribbean. On Monday, Trump announced that the ...
NBC New York

U.S. Coast Guard Offloads $37 Million Worth of Cocaine Seized From Drug Bust

The U.S Coast Guard on Tuesday offloaded 2,500 pounds of cocaine, worth $37 million, which was seized in a multi-national drug bust south of the Dominican Republic. On Jan. 22 in the dark, a Coast ...
Miami Herald

From interdiction to strike: How America’s narco war turned lethal in the Caribbean | Opinion

When President Donald Trump initially ordered military strikes purportedly on narcoterrorist “go-fast” boats from Venezuela speeding toward the U.S., I recalled my role as special adviser to the ...
Arizona Daily Star

Suspicious go-fast boat capsizes in Caribbean; 1 rescued, 3 missing

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A go-fast boat reportedly carrying a crew of four capsized on a Caribbean route used by drug traffickers and one survivor was found clinging to the boat's bow, which was ...