Media Advisory: Coast Guard to offload cocaine from Eastern Pacific interdictions

News Release

March 30, 2017 U.S. Coast Guard 11th District PA Detachment San Diego Contact: Coast Guard PA Detachment San Diego Office: (619) 278-7025 After Hours: (619) 252-1304

Media Advisory: Coast Guard to offload cocaine from Eastern Pacific interdictions

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Who: 

• Capt. Nathan Moore, commanding officer, Coast Guard Cutter Stratton
• Crew of Coast Guard Cutter Stratton

Note: No formal press briefing or announcements will be held in connection with this event. Cutter representatives will provide brief comments and field questions; media will have an opportunity to shoot imagery of bulk cocaine on deck.

What:

• The Coast Guard will offload approximately six tons of cocaine seized by four Coast Guard cutters in the drug transit zone in the Eastern Pacific from late January through February.

When:

• Friday, March 31. Credentialed media should arrive by 7:15 a.m. to ensure screening and access. 

Where:

• Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal, located at 1824 Crosby Rd, San Diego, CA 92101.
• Media will be invited aboard the Stratton to observe the bulk contraband.

How:

• Please bring a government-issued photo ID, press credentials, proof of vehicle registration and insurance. 
• Journalists will be escorted to the event location following security screening.

Why:

• During the last two years, the Coast Guard surged personnel and resources to known drug transit zones, increased intelligence and investigative resources and strengthened interagency and international partnerships aimed at reducing the threat of transnational organized crime in the Western Hemisphere.
• Cartels, gangs and criminal groups have converged to form intricate transnational organized crime networks that fuel the nation’s opiate epidemic, spread violence throughout Central and South America and have a presence in nearly every single major city in the U.S. The same criminal networks move heroin, cocaine and other illegal drugs plaguing the nation.

 

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