A small boat crew from U.S. Coast Guard cutter Donald Horsley pursues suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea, Oct. 3, 2018. (Courtesy Air Station Elizabeth City/U.S. Coast Guard) Editor’s note: ...

new video loaded: How the U.S. Coast Guard Fights Drug Smuggling at Sea transcript New York Times reporters spent two days with the Coast Guard’s drug interdiction teams to see how they stop suspected ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Coast Guard members transfer bales of cocaine from a suspected drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean on April 17, 2025. (PO3 Austin Wiley/U.S. Coast Guard) The U.S. Coast Guard ...

Editor's note: This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service, under the headline "Q&A: How Did the U.S. Patrol the ...