USCG Cutter Hawk Offloads 576 Kilos of Cocaine
Posted on Aug 29th, 2014 with tags 576, americas, Cocaine, Cutter, Hawk, Kilos, Naval, Navy, News by topic, Offloads, USCG.
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Hawk, an 87-foot patrol boat homeported in St. Petersburg, Fla., sailed into its homeport on August 22 carrying a load of 576 kilograms of seized cocaine.
The crew of the vessel offloaded the drugs at Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg.
Estimated at a value of $19 million, the drugs were seized during Operation Martillo, a joint interagency and multi-national collaborative effort among 14 Western Hemisphere and European nations to stop the flow of illicit cargo by Transnational Criminal Organizations.
Press Release, August 29, 2014; Image: USCG
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