Coast Guard cutter Munro returns to California home after record-breaking 11-Ton cocaine seizure

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter and its unit returned to their location successful California pursuing a 119-day ngo successful which they seized much than 22,000 pounds of cocaine, the largest maritime cause seizure successful 18 years, successful the Atlantic successful enactment of the Trump administration's effort to people cause traffickers. 

The cutter Munro near its larboard successful Alameda connected Nov. 3, 2025 for grooming and information successful Resolute Hunter workout offshore of San Diego, before sailing into the Pacific Ocean to behaviour counternarcotics patrols successful enactment of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Operation Pacific Viper.

However, the vessel was diverted to the Atlantic Ocean successful enactment of Operation Southern Spear, a Trump medication effort to people and disrupt transnational transgression networks, the War Department said Monday. 

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The Coast Guard cutter Munro successful the waters of the Strait of Gibraltar disconnected Ceuta, connected Feb. 2 successful Ceuta, Spain.- The vessel has returned to California aft 119-days aboard wherever the unit seized grounds amounts of cocaine and detained suspected cause traffickers.  (Getty Images)

"The service, our federation and our families tin beryllium highly arrogant of Munro," said Capt. Jim O’Mara, Munro’s commanding officer. "This unit roseate to each caller situation thrown astatine them with professionalism and persistence, and they achieved historical results. This was a one-of-a-kind deployment for us, but it is besides conscionable 1 portion of a overmuch broader run and U.S. nationalist strategy."

After transiting the Panama Canal, the Munro patrolled the Carribean Sea, wherever it followed the U.S.-sanctioned Motor Tanker Bella 1, crossed the Atlantic Ocean for 18 days and 4,900 miles. 

The vas was determined to beryllium without nationality and taxable to U.S. jurisdiction. The unit of the Munro boarded the Bella to prehend power of the 333-meter crude oil carrier.

In the Pacific, the Munro detected a vas transiting on a known smuggling route.

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President Donald Trump speaks with the media arsenic Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth looks connected aboard Air Force One during a formation from Dover, Delaware, to Miami, Florida connected Saturday.   (SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

With the assistance of its 2 cutter pursuit boats and different assets, the Munro tracked and interdicted the vas utilizing informing shots and disabling occurrence from a helicopter. 

Six suspected cause smugglers were detained and 22,052 pounds of cocaine were seized, a milestone not seen successful astir 2 decades. 

"We could not person done this without enactment from partners, allies, and our families," said O’Mara. "Our families had to accommodate to each caller twist, conscionable similar each subject families bash crossed the Armed Forces. It is pugnacious connected them. But erstwhile they clasp beardown astatine location that keeps america motivated and focused connected our mission."

On Sunday, the Pentagon announced that U.S. forces person carried retired a lethal onslaught connected a vas allegedly carrying suspected narco-traffickers successful the Eastern Pacific, sidesplitting six radical connected board.

The latest onslaught brings the decease toll successful the Trump administration's attacks connected ships carrying suspected cause smugglers to astatine slightest 156, according to The New York Times.

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It was the 45th onslaught since the U.S. began targeting boats successful the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific successful aboriginal September and comes amid a caller summation successful the gait of strikes, the paper reported.