In the wide Eastern Pacific Ocean, where fast speedboats loaded with cocaine race through international waters, U.S. Coast Guard planes fired warning shots and then aimed at boat engines to stop three ...

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Active (WMEC 618) crew members offload bales of seized cocaine in San Diego, Dec. 15, 2025. The drugs, worth $203.9 million, were seized in international waters of the Eastern ...

A U.S. Coast Guard crew seized over 5,000 pounds of cocaine from vessels in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, continuing a trend of major busts from non-lethal operations in the area. The crew of the USCG ...

PORT ANGELES — The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Active has concluded a 60-day counternarcotics deployment to the eastern Pacific Ocean in support of Operation Pacific Viper. The Active’s crew of 75 Coast ...