IN THE WAR ON DRUGS, COAST GUARD CAPTURES ANOTHER NARCO SUB

Coast Guard intercepts narco-sub with 5,000 pounds of cocaine worth $69M

By Robert Gearty

Fox News
November 16, 2019

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter has seized an apparent narco-submarine carrying more than 5,000 pounds of cocaine worth approximately $69 million during an interdiction operation in the Pacific Ocean.

The semi-submersible vessel was transporting 2 1/2 tons of cocaine at the time of the Oct. 23 seizure by Coast Guard law enforcement personnel aboard the Harriet Lane.

“Boarding teams from the cutter deployed in interceptor boats and stopped the suspected smuggling vessel just before midnight,” the Coast Guard said in a news release Thursday.

“The boarding teams took control of the vessel before the four suspected smugglers aboard could sink the craft using installed scuttling valves.”

The exact location of the bust wasn’t disclosed.

“I am really proud of our crew and the precision and professionalism with which they conducted this interdiction,” said Cmdr. Dorothy Hernaez, Commanding Officer of the Harriet Lane, in the statement. . “It was an all hands on deck effort to properly position the cutter and to safely make the seizure."

The Harriet Lane - a 270-foot medium-endurance cutter commissioned in 1984, operates out of Portsmouth in Virginia.

EDITOR’S NOTE: In September, the U.S. Coast Guard seized a 40-foot semi-submersible vessel in the Eastern Pacific Ocean that was carrying 12,000 pounds of cocaine worth more than $165 million.

Hey folks, we are winning the ongoing war on drugs, not losing it. Significant seizures are being made nearly every day of drugs that would otherwise e sold on the streets.