Cutter Vigilant returns home after stopping millions in drug shipments
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: maritime_port_security Image Caption: Vigilant The Coast Guard’s 210-foot medium endurance Cutter Vigilant returned to its home at Port Canaveral, FL, after its crew interdicted two loads of cocaine estimated to be worth $64 million in the Caribbean. Vigilant’s return to Port Canaveral on Nov. 6, said the Coast Guard, marked […]
Cutter Resolute bags $35 million in drugs, saves smugglers
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Resolute offloadsseized drugs The Coast Guard’s 210-foot Cutter Resolute, returned to its home port in Florida on Oct. 7 after saving four drug smugglers, helping find a lost cruise ship passenger and confiscating $35 million in drugs. The ship’s 10-week deployment, said the Coast Guard, had three […]
Cutter picks up hundreds of Haitian migrants off South Florida
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Haitian sail freighter A U.S. Coast Guard cutter picked up hundreds of Haitian migrants from rickety, small boats off the coast of south Florida and returned them to Haiti the week of Sept. 24. The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Confidence repatriated 219 Haitian migrants to […]