Cutters are still stopping smugglers and seizing drugs, but the prosecutions of go-fast boat crews are dwindling in a ...
A Coast Guard helicopter sniper takes aim with a .50 caliber rifle in a training exercise to knock out a fast boat engine without injuring the crew Pete Hegseth has strongly defended the current ...
On Sept. 2. President Trump, following an earlier secret directive, ordered the killing of 11 men on an alleged drug running boat in the southern Caribbean. On Monday, Trump announced that the ...
The old model in U.S. Southern Command waters was simple: find the go-fast, warn it, disable it if needed, board, bag the evidence, and march the crew to court. This month, Washington flipped that ...
A U.S. Coast Guard crew seized over 5,000 pounds of cocaine from vessels in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, continuing a trend of major busts from non-lethal operations in the area. The crew of the USCG ...
When President Donald Trump initially ordered military strikes purportedly on narcoterrorist “go-fast” boats from Venezuela speeding toward the U.S., I recalled my role as special adviser to the ...
Speedboats have always been tied up in guns, drugs, big money, and murder, so it’s no surprise that they were invented in South Florida. (Check out Thunder Man, the bio-pic of cigarette boat designer ...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A go-fast boat reportedly carrying a crew of four capsized on a Caribbean route used by drug traffickers and one survivor was found clinging to the boat's bow, which was ...