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Over the course of four days and four interdictions at the end of May, the destroyer USS Lassen <\/em>and the LCS USS Detroit <\/em>intercepted a combined 112 bales of suspected contraband worth over $79.6 million. <\/p>\n While on patrol May 24 and May 26, Lassen <\/em>and her helicopter team intercepted two go-fast boats with the help of an embarked Coast Guard LEDET team. On May 24 and May 27, Detroit <\/em>made two separate interdictions with the assistance of a Navy maritime patrol aircraft. Detroit <\/em>employed one of her embarked helicopters for overwatch and a LEDET team for boarding.<\/p>\n Together, Lassen <\/em>and Detroit <\/em>recovered 70 bales of cocaine totaling about two tonnes. Its value is estimated at about $76 million. Lassen <\/em>also recovered 42 bales of marijuana with a value of about $4 million. <\/p>\n Cutter Vigilant seizes over three tonnes of cocaine<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n On Monday, the Coast Guard cutter Vigilant <\/em>had an even bigger bust, capturing 122 bales of cocaine in back-to-back interdictions off Costa Rica. <\/p>\n The forward-deployed helicopter crew aboard the Vigilant <\/em>successfully disabled the first go-fast vessel and spotted the crew throwing packages overboard. Once on scene, the boarding team found four people aboard and recovered 77 bales containing 4,200 pounds of cocaine.<\/p>\n Immediately following the first interdiction, the helicopter crew and a separate cutter boarding team headed off to intercept another go-fast vessel with five people aboard. The helicopter crew disabled the second go-fast vessel and again spotted the crew throwing packages overboard. Vigilant’s <\/em>boarding team apprehended five people and recovered 45 bales containing about 2,600 pounds of cocaine.<\/p>\n The drugs recovered during both of Vigilant's <\/em>interdictions has an estimated wholesale value of nearly $120 million. The nine detained suspects will be prosecuted by the Middle District of Florida.<\/p>\n maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the course of four days and four interdictions at the end of May, the destroyer USS Lassen and the LCS USS Detroit intercepted a combined 112 bales of suspected contraband worth over $79.6 million. While on patrol May 24 and May 26, Lassen and her helicopter team intercepted two go-fast boats with the help …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[7918,5898,2559,3166,1997,7916,6783,7917,1089,128,7915],"class_list":["post-12018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-busts","tag-carries","tag-cutter","tag-days","tag-drug","tag-go-fast","tag-hitron","tag-ledet","tag-navy","tag-uscg","tag-vigilant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12018","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=12018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/12019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}