US Navy Ship Takes Down Drug Vessel, Seizes 1.5 Tons Of Cocaine
The guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney, with an embarked U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement detachment team, seized an estimated 3,000 pounds of cocaine in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
In the May 14 operation, a U.S. Navy maritime patrol aircraft assigned to the “Tridents” of Patrol Squadron 26 spotted the low-profile...