Largest Marijuana Bust by Coast Guard Since 2011

USNORTHCOM, AT SEA

07.29.2014

Video by Cpl. Danielle Rodrigues 

U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area

Coast Guardsmen make the largest marijuana interdiction in the Pacific Ocean since 2011 in this previously unreleased video from July 29, 2014, seizing more than 11,600 pounds of narcotics following a two-hour chase with the suspected smugglers. Cutters Stratton and Petrel led the interdiction effort while Air Station Sacramento provide air support to operation, which resulted in the apprehension of four suspected smuggler who entered guilty pleas to the same crime and were sentenced to 78, 37, 30 and 21 months, respectively.

• Date Taken: 07.29.2014
• Date Posted: 10.02.2015 18:48
• Category: B-Roll
• Video ID: 426431
• VIRIN: 140729-G-xx123-001
• Filename: DOD_102773033
• Length: 00:01:28
• Location: USNORTHCOM, AT SEA
• Hometown: ALAMEDA, CA, US
• Hometown: SAN DIEGO, CA, US