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Coast Guard, Navy Seize Illicit Drugs in Third Fleet Waters

08 April 2021
Coast Guard, Navy Seize Illicit Drugs in Third Fleet Waters
Coast Guard, Navy Seize Illicit Drugs in Third Fleet Waters
Coast Guard, Navy Seize Illicit Drugs in Third Fleet Waters
Coast Guard, Navy Seize Illicit Drugs in Third Fleet Waters
Coast Guard, Navy Seize Illicit Drugs in Third Fleet Waters
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VIRIN: 210412-N-N0831-0002

The joint U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy team seized over 1,500 kilograms of cocaine while operating in U.S. Third Fleet waters, April 7.
 
Littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1), with embarked Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment 107, conducted the seizure off the coast of Mexico in support of Joint Interagency Task Force South’s counter-illicit drug trafficking mission.
 
“The Navy-Coast Guard team on Freedom executed flawlessly,” said Vice Adm. Scott D. Conn, U.S. Third Fleet commander. “This mission, performed on short notice with exacting precision, demonstrates the strength of our flexible, mobile, integrated and trained team.”
 
Freedom and embarked Helicopter Sea Combat squadron 23 detachment identified and approached the illicit drug transport boat. The Coast Guard LEDET then conducted a boarding, search, and seizure of the vessel.
 
“I want to thank Cmdr. Larry Repass, Freedom’s commanding officer, the crew of USS Freedom and embarked Law Enforcement Detachment 107 for a successful interdiction yesterday,” said Rear Adm. Brian Penoyer, Eleventh Coast Guard District commander. “This is yet another example of how important the relationship is between the Coast Guard and Navy. That relationship allows us to be an effective team, and because of that team effort we have removed an additional 3,450 pounds of illicit drugs from reaching the streets, and saving countless lives in the process.”
 
Freedom and embarked personnel have been conducting counternarcotics missions in U.S. 4th Fleet since their departure from San Diego, Jan. 11. The counternarcotics interdiction efforts are aimed at thwarting transnational criminal organizations, which are fueled by drug trafficking money.
 
U.S. 3rd Fleet leads naval forces in the Indo-Pacific and provides the realistic, relevant training necessary to flawlessly execute our Navy’s timeless roles of sea control and power projection. U.S. 3rd Fleet works in close coordination with other numbered Fleets to provide commanders with capable, ready assets to deploy forward and win in day-to-day competition, in crisis, and in conflict.
 
 

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