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Yahoo
28-04-2025
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Honolulu Coast Guard crew nabs 20K pounds of cocaine in Pacific
U.S. COAST GUARD Crew members from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Kimball on Thursday stacked bales of interdicted illegal drugs on the flight deck to prepare for offloading in San Diego. The narcotics were seized in the Eastern Pacific during counternarcotic patrols. 1 /3 U.S. COAST GUARD Crew members from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Kimball on Thursday stacked bales of interdicted illegal drugs on the flight deck to prepare for offloading in San Diego. The narcotics were seized in the Eastern Pacific during counternarcotic patrols. U.S. COAST GUARD Custody of suspected drug smugglers, above, is transferred to the Coast Guard Investigative Service and Guatemalan Drug Enforcement Agency in Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala. 2 /3 U.S. COAST GUARD Custody of suspected drug smugglers, above, is transferred to the Coast Guard Investigative Service and Guatemalan Drug Enforcement Agency in Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala. U.S. COAST GUARD Above, Coast Guard crew members aboard a long-range interceptor II cutter oversaw the sinking of a suspected drug smuggling vessel in March after seizing contraband. 3 /3 U.S. COAST GUARD Above, Coast Guard crew members aboard a long-range interceptor II cutter oversaw the sinking of a suspected drug smuggling vessel in March after seizing contraband. U.S. COAST GUARD Crew members from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Kimball on Thursday stacked bales of interdicted illegal drugs on the flight deck to prepare for offloading in San Diego. The narcotics were seized in the Eastern Pacific during counternarcotic patrols. U.S. COAST GUARD Custody of suspected drug smugglers, above, is transferred to the Coast Guard Investigative Service and Guatemalan Drug Enforcement Agency in Puerto Quetzal, Guatemala. U.S. COAST GUARD Above, Coast Guard crew members aboard a long-range interceptor II cutter oversaw the sinking of a suspected drug smuggling vessel in March after seizing contraband. The crew of a Honolulu-based Coast Guard cutter has offloaded nearly 20, 000 pounds of cocaine it seized during a deployment in the Eastern Pacific as the U.S. ramps up drug war operations. The CGC Kimball and its crew delivered the drugs, worth an estimated $214.3 million, to authorities in San Diego on Thursday. According to a news release, the haul was a result of six separate interdictions of suspected drug smuggling vessel interdictions and other operations off the coasts of Mexico and Central and South America from February through April. The operation was part of a larger multiagency effort to combat Latin American drug cartels. The Pacific has seen a dramatic influx in drug trafficking, with drugs moving from Latin America into the U.S. mainland on boats—and in some cases homemade 'narco submarines '—moving up routes in the Eastern Pacific. Increasingly, drugs are also being smuggled westward through routes spanning the Pacific islands and into Australia and Asia in what is being called the Pacific Drug Highway. 'The fight against drug cartels in the Eastern Pacific Ocean requires unity of effort in all phases, from detection, monitoring and interdictions to criminal prosecutions by international partners and U.S. Attorneys' Offices in districts across the nation, ' the Coast Guard said in a statement after delivering the confiscated cocaine to San Diego. 'The Coast Guard continues to increase operations to interdict, seize, and disrupt transshipment of cocaine and other bulk illicit drugs by sea. These drugs fuel and enable cartels and Transnational Criminal Organizations to produce and traffic illegal fentanyl threatening the U.S.' The Kimball is one of two Legend-class national security cutters based in Honolulu, which are considered among the Coast Guard's largest and most advanced vessels. Those Hawaii-based vessels have been largely focused on operations in the Western and Northern Pacific, in part to monitor the activity of Chinese and Russian vessels. Don 't miss out on what 's happening ! Stay in touch with breaking news, as it happens, conveniently in your email inbox. It 's FREE ! Email 28141 Sign Up By clicking to sign up, you agree to Star-Advertiser 's and Google 's and. This form is protected by reCAPTCHA. The Coast Guard in recent years has bulked up efforts to combat illegal fishing in the Pacific, which began during Donald Trump's first presidency when the Coast Guard declared it the No. 1 global security threat at sea, and ramped up significantly under the presidency of Joe Biden. In 2020 the Coast Guard's then-commandant Adm. Karl Schultz said illegal fishing threatens the legitimate economies of coastal communities and can push people to turn to criminal enterprises when their fisheries become threatened and depleted. The U.S. government spent untold billions of dollars on fighting drug trafficking since declaring the 'war on drugs ' in 1971. Despite decades of wide-ranging operations by law enforcement, intelligence agencies and military organizations around the globe, both drug trafficking and consumption have by many metrics only continued to increase. By some estimates there is now more cocaine being produced, smuggled and consumed than at any other point in history, and some analysts have declared we are living in the 'golden age of cocaine.' In the first week of his second presidency, Trump signed executive orders and declared a national emergency that among other things called on the Coast Guard to redouble operations to crack down on migrants and asylum seekers and chase down drug smugglers. The Trump administration also has moved to designate drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and discussed the possibility of launching drone strikes and military special-operations raids against them as it seeks to further ramp up the war on drugs.
Yahoo
01-03-2025
- Health
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USCG medevacs ailing man, 72, from cruise ship south of Oahu
1 /2 Video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Tyler Robertson / U.S. Coast Guard District 14 Hawaii Pacific COURTESY U.S. COAST GUARD A screenshot from a Coast Guard video of the rescue of a cruise ship passenger who experienced multiple strokes about 57 miles south of Honolulu. 2 /2 COURTESY U.S. COAST GUARD A screenshot from a Coast Guard video of the rescue of a cruise ship passenger who experienced multiple strokes about 57 miles south of Honolulu. COURTESY U.S. COAST GUARD A screenshot from a Coast Guard video of the rescue of a cruise ship passenger who experienced multiple strokes about 57 miles south of Honolulu. The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday rescued and medevaced a cruise ship passenger who experienced multiple strokes south of Oahu. The Coast Guard in Honolulu received notification at 2 :48 p.m. Wednesday from crew aboard the Koningsdam, a Holland America Line cruise ship, that a 72-year-old man had experienced multiple stroke episodes on board. The duty flight surgeon recommended a medevac within 20 hours. The USCG deployed an HC-130 Hercules airplane crew and an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Station Barbers Point. At 9 a.m. Thursday, both crews reached the Koningsdam about 57 miles south of Honolulu. The man was hoisted to the helicopter from the cruise ship and transported to The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, where he was reportedly in stable condition. 1 Comments By participating in online discussions you acknowledge that you have agreed to the. An insightful discussion of ideas and viewpoints is encouraged, but comments must be civil and in good taste, with no personal attacks. If your comments are inappropriate, you may be banned from posting. Report comments if you believe they do not follow our. Having trouble with comments ? .
