Coast Guard Cutter Decisive Returns Home After 56-Day Patrol
The crew's Caribbean patrol included two rescues at sea as well as training exercises with Coast Guard helicopter crews. Keep Reading
Coast Guard Cutter Mohawk Crew Returns to Key West After Interdicting $69 Million in Drugs
Mohawk’s crew worked with multiple interagency and international maritime patrol aircraft and surface assets to counter transnational criminal organizations and hinder the illicit flow of drugs, people, and other dangerous cargo. Keep Reading
Coast Guard Cutter Reliance Returns from a 36-Day Caribbean Sea Patrol
During the patrol the Reliance crew performed counter-drug operations and intercepted three vessels attempting to smuggle more than 3,300 pounds of cocaine and detained a total of nine suspected smugglers. Keep Reading
Coast Guard Cutter Tampa Crewmembers Return Home Following 57-Day Caribbean Patrol
Patrolling known drug trafficking areas throughout the Caribbean and working with partner agencies and maritime patrol aircraft, the Tampa crew interdicted a vessel carrying approximately 170 pounds of cocaine worth $1.95 million. Keep Reading
Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant Returns Home After 48-Day Caribbean Counter-Drug Patrol
The crew’s efforts focused on ensuring the safety of life at sea while also enforcing border security by conducting counter drug and alien migrant interdiction operations. Keep Reading
CBP’s Fiscal Year 2020 Border Enforcement in Review for the Caribbean
This Caribbean area effort is possible through collaborative operations and partnerships with other Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, which have become an integral part of CBP’s procedures, in order to manage illicit activity throughout the area. Keep Reading
ICE, Caribbean Corridor Strike Force Seize $27 Million in Cash
As part of the operation that led to the multimillion cash seizure, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers conducted an outbound cargo inspection on board the Motor Vessel Norma H II Voyage 818. Keep Reading
Coast Guard Cutter Reliance Arrives in New Homeport in Florida
The Reliance crew oversaw repairs to the cutter followed by migrant repatriation efforts in the Windward Pass supporting Coast Guard 7th District operations. Keep Reading
Coast Guard Recovers 11 Bales of Adrift Cocaine 10 Miles Southwest of Desecheo Island
A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew located a debris field approximately 10 miles southwest of Desecho Island. The cutter Paul Clark crew arrived on scene and recovered 10 bales of cocaine weighing approximately 1,000 pounds from the debris field. Keep Reading
Coast Guard Cutter Harriet Lane Returns Home After Patrol in Caribbean
Harriet Lane conducted its patrol in support of the Coast Guard’s Seventh District and the United States Southern Command’s Joint Interagency Task Force South. Keep Reading
Coast Guard Cutter Kathleen Moore Offloads Approximately 1,300 Pounds of Marijuana in Miami Beach
The fight against drug cartels in the Caribbean Sea requires unity of effort in all phases from detection, monitoring and interdictions, to criminal prosecutions by U.S. Attorneys in districts across the nation. Keep Reading
Coronavirus
CBP Reminds Boaters of Reporting Requirements in the Caribbean to Slow COVID-19 Spread
CBP officers use a combination of traveler history records, officer questioning and observation, and self-declarations to identify arriving individuals who meet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) COVID-19 travel history and screening guidelines. Keep Reading
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Diligence Returns to Wilmington After 60-Day Patrol
The Diligence performed counter drug, search and rescue, and alien migrant interdiction operations in support of Coast Guard District Seven and Joint Interagency Task Force (JIATF) South. Keep Reading
Coast Guard Cutter Dependable Returns Home After Patrol in Caribbean
The ship’s crew spent a combined 91 hours on counter-narcotics boardings and completed over 40 small boat sorties. Keep Reading
Coast Guard Cutter Dauntless Returns Home After 47-Day Patrol
Shortly after getting underway, the Dauntless crew was assigned command of a task force conducting Hurricane Dorian relief efforts. Keep Reading
Coast Guard Offloads 970 Pounds of Cocaine, 550 Pounds of Pot at Base Miami Beach
The contraband offloaded was interdicted off the coasts of Jamaica, Haiti, and Colombia, and represented three separate cases involving suspected drug smuggling vessel interdictions. Keep Reading
DHS, Military Train for Possibility of Mass Migration by Sea
"This mission is as much a humanitarian response as it is a border security mission and it is our responsibility to do everything we can do to train," says Coast Guard commander. Keep Reading
Caribbean Development Bank Supporting Maritime Regional Security System
Collaboration is essential for Caribbean countries in their efforts to strengthen maritime security to protect citizens and unlock the potential of the blue economy. Keep Reading
Coast Guard Repatriates 35 Migrants to Dominican Republic After Interdiction Off Puerto Rico
During a routine patrol in the Mona Passage Thursday night, the crew of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection aircraft initially detected a group of migrants traveling aboard a 20-foot wooden and overloaded makeshift boat. Keep Reading
CBP Offering Recruitment Incentive to Fill Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands Air and Marine Openings
Air and Marine interdiction agents intercept, apprehend, and disrupt threats in the land, sea, and air domains as they move toward or across the borders of the United States and enforce more than 400 federal, state and local laws. Keep Reading