The crew of a Honolulu-based Coast Guard cutter has offloaded nearly 20, 000 pounds of cocaine it seized during a deployment in the Eastern Pacific as the U.S. ramps up drug war operations.
The CGC Kimball and its crew delivered the drugs, worth an estimated $214.3 million, to authorities in San Diego on Thursday. According to a news release, the haul was a result of six separate interdictions of suspected drug smuggling vessel interdictions and other operations off the coasts of Mexico and Central and South America from February through April.
The operation was part of a larger multiagency effort to combat Latin American drug cartels…