The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stone arrived at Port Everglades, Florida, this week with the largest amount of cocaine seized by a single cutter in one patrol in Coast Guard history. Its crew seized 49,010 pounds of drugs worth more than $362 million during 15 encounters with cartel smuggling boats in the Eastern Pacific Ocean in support of “Operation Pacific Viper.”
Unlike US Southern Command operations in the Caribbean, which have led to deaths of more than 80 people, the crew of the Stone took all of the cartel smugglers they encountered into custody before offloading their drug loads and setting their boats afire.
The Coast Guard Cutter Stone is one of four 418-foot Legend-class National Security Cutters homeported in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Jack Beavers
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Excellent article. It pleases me to see the drugs destroyed!! Great job by our Coast Guard!! Such an in our face moment of good vs evil. Thank you.
Thank you for reporting this news! It feels good to see the pictures and realize how gargantuan the drug issue is!! It also feels incredible that there are so many brave officers working to stop the flow of such poison!!! Mind boggling and frightening, especially having lost a son to drug addiction!!!!