A Coast Guard helicopter sniper takes aim with a .50 caliber rifle in a training exercise to knock out a fast boat engine without injuring the crew Pete Hegseth has strongly defended the current approach approach of stopping drug boats with lethal strikes ...

When President Donald Trump initially ordered military strikes purportedly on narcoterrorist “go-fast” boats from Venezuela speeding toward the U.S., I recalled my role as special adviser to the director of Joint Interagency Task Force South, which ...

Semi-submersible drug boats once sank their own evidence and swam away but a clever legal fix and ruthless Coast Guard tactics turned the tables; watch how narco crews scuttle submarines to hide cocaine, why that stopped working after the Drug Trafficking ...

A U.S. Coast Guard crew seized over 5,000 pounds of cocaine from vessels in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, continuing a trend of major busts from non-lethal operations in the area. The crew of the USCG Cutter Active offloaded over 27,000 pounds of cocaine in ...

Speedboats have always been tied up in guns, drugs, big money, and murder, so it’s no surprise that they were invented in South Florida. (Check out Thunder Man, the bio-pic of cigarette boat designer Don Aronow.) Well, go-fast boats aren’t just for ...

President Donald Trump and his Pentagon chief say U.S. military strikes on suspected drug boats in waters off Latin America are saving lives by preventing narcotics from reaching America’s shores. But drug cartels operating vessels in the Caribbean ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A go-fast boat reportedly carrying a crew of four capsized on a Caribbean route used by drug traffickers and one survivor was found clinging to the boat's bow, which was jutting out of the water, U.S. authorities said Monday.

On Sept. 2. President Trump, following an earlier secret directive, ordered the killing of 11 men on an alleged drug running boat in the southern Caribbean. On Monday, Trump announced that the military conducted another strike on another Venezuelan boat it ...

The French navy opened fire on a go-fast boat in the Atlantic to immobilise it, arrest its crew and seize 2.4 tonnes of cocaine on board worth $150 million, authorities said on Tuesday. The Barron's news department was not involved in the creation of the content above. This article was produced by AFP. For more information go to AFP.com.

The U.S. Navy's guided-missile destroyer Sampson seized an estimated 3,439 pounds of cocaine July 10, 2025. (U.S. Pacific Command via AP) An Arleigh-Burke class destroyer recently sent to the southern border to support U.S. Northern Command intercepted a ...