Coast Guard Cutter Stratton boarding team members detain four suspected smugglers after intercepting their vessel with 17 bales of cocaine on board in the Eastern Pacific Ocean Sept. 8, 2017. The U.S. removes about 20 percent of known drug shipments bound for the U.S. each year, which in Fiscal Year 2016 was about 443,600 pounds of cocaine. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Jon-Paul Rios.
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