{"id":10424,"date":"2020-05-25T20:18:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T17:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/hitron-squad-enables-60m-cocaine-bust-at-sea\/10424\/"},"modified":"2020-05-25T20:18:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T17:18:21","slug":"hitron-squad-enables-60m-cocaine-bust-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/hitron-squad-enables-60m-cocaine-bust-at-sea\/10424\/","title":{"rendered":"HITRON Squad Enables $60M Cocaine Bust at Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter <em>Escanaba <\/em>returned home to Boston on Saturday after a 62-day patrol in support of Operation Martillo in the Western Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p><em>Escanaba&rsquo;s <\/em>crew seized nearly 2,000 kilos of cocaine&nbsp;valued at $60 million while working with an armed helicopter interdiction tactical squadron (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maritime-executive.com\/article\/uscg-s-sharpshooters-celebrate-20-years-and-20b-in-seizures\">HITRON squad<\/a>) and local Panamanian law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/media\/images\/article\/Photos\/Navy_Govt_CoastGuard\/hitron-squad-escanaba-2.jpg\" style=\"height:400px;width:600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy USCG<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Escanaba&rsquo;s <\/em>crew also located a disabled boat 100 miles north of Colombia in 14-foot seas and 35 mph winds. The crew launched its small boat team and rescued the four crew members stranded aboard the boat. <em>Escanaba&rsquo;s <\/em>crew transferred the survivors to the Colombian Navy.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I am extremely proud of the crew for their extraordinary dedication and professionalism throughout this patrol during an unprecedented time,&rdquo; said Cmdr. Mike Nalli, commanding officer of <em>Escanaba<\/em>. &ldquo;We overcame numerous challenges to focus on mission execution and achieve excellent results in support of SOUTHCOM&#039;s national objectives.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Operation Martillo is a multinational detection, monitoring, and interdiction operation that consists of 20 participating nations working together to counter transnational organized crime networks and illicit trafficking in the waters along Central America.<\/p>\n<p><em>Escanaba <\/em>is a 270-foot medium endurance cutter with a crew complement of 100. They conduct maritime enforcement and homeland security missions in support of Coast Guard operations throughout the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Escanaba returned home to Boston on Saturday after a 62-day patrol in support of Operation Martillo in the Western Caribbean. Escanaba&rsquo;s crew seized nearly 2,000 kilos of cocaine&nbsp;valued at $60 million while working with an armed helicopter interdiction tactical squadron (HITRON squad) and local Panamanian law enforcement. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[6785,2477,1134,2476,6784,6782,6783,41,997,4696,4288],"class_list":["post-10424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-60m","tag-bust","tag-coast-guard","tag-cocaine","tag-enables","tag-escanaba","tag-hitron","tag-maritime","tag-sea","tag-smuggling","tag-squad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/10425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}