The U.S. Coast Guard seized virtually $50 million in medicine from a fishing boat within the Gulf of Oman this week, based on a Tuesday press launch from the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command.
As a part of the Mixed Process Drive 150, a multinational unit headed by the Royal Saudi Naval Forces, the USCGC Glen Harris captured greater than 11,000 kilos of cannabis and roughly 1,700 kilos of methamphetamines off the northeastern coast of Oman on Monday.
This brings the duty power’s whole drug seize greenback quantity as much as $300 million, based on Stars and Stripes, for which the Glen Harris is liable for a lot of the haul.
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The US-Saudi relationship soured this week after Saudi-led OPEC reduce oil manufacturing regardless of U.S. protests, a transfer that would increase gasoline costs globally. President Joe Biden promised “penalties” to the connection after the transfer. Regardless of the worldwide stress, U.S. and Saudi forces proceed to work collectively as a part of the multinational maritime activity power geared toward quelling drug trafficking.
The Glen Harris turned the U.S. Coast Guard’s forty fourth quick response cutter final 12 months, and because it mobilized to the Center East earlier this 12 months, it has performed quite a few drug interdictions, leading to virtually $100 million value of seizures since Could.
“FRCs facilitated tons of of home fisheries boardings, apprehended 105 suspected drug smugglers, interdicted 18,877 kilograms of cocaine,” the Coast Guard’s web site says, “depriving transnational felony organizations of $787 million in income — and rescued or interdicted 1,805 irregular maritime migrants throughout fiscal 12 months 2021.”
Mixed Process Drive 150 is one among 4 items throughout the Mixed Maritime Forces, based on the press launch.
The seizure off the coast of Oman comes simply weeks after the Coast Guard picked up a whopping $475 million value of cocaine and marijuana on the opposite aspect of the world — off the coast of Miami.
— Drew F. Lawrence might be reached at drew.lawrence@army.com. Observe him on Twitter @df_lawrence.
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