US Guided Missile Destroyer Seizes 1.5 Tons Of Cocaine From Drug Vessel

In a rare operation in the high sees, a guided missile destroyer of the U.S. Navy intercepted a drug vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and seized an estimated 3,000 pounds of cocaine, worth more than $28 million in international market. The USS Pinckney, with an embarked Coast Guard law enforcement team on board, conducted the successful operation on May 14. A patrol aircraft assigned to the