"US Coast Guard Intercepts $143 Million Worth of Cocaine in Pacific"

The US Coast Guard Cutter Alert seized over $143 million worth of cocaine in the eastern Pacific Ocean during a 59-day counter-narcotics patrol, with the crew intercepting a suspected "go-fast" vessel and disabling its engines with a HITRON helicopter. The crew then recovered bales of cocaine jettisoned into the sea by the smugglers, marking the cutter's last patrol out of Astoria, Oregon, where it is based.