The Maine-based Coast Guard cutter Tahoma arrived in Miami today with 10,000 pounds of confiscated cocaine.
The Maine-based Coast Guard cutter Tahoma arrived in Miami today with 10,000 pounds of confiscated cocaine.The cutter has been working with U.S. and British navy patrols in the Caribbean, operations which in late June led to the seizure of 13,000 pounds of cocaine worth about $227 million on the street.On June 26, the Tahoma boarded a 120-foot Honduran ship Miss Dayanna 76 miles south of Jamaica and found the 10,000-pound cocaine stash hidden on board. The 270-foot Tahoma's home port is Kittery.The Coast Guard said its cutter named Tahoma intercepted a boat bound for Honduras in June in the Windward Passage, the section of the Caribbean Sea between Cuba and Hispaniola. The Honduran ship was on its way from Venezuela to Honduras when Coast Guard officials deemed it suspicious and boarded the vessel.Officials said they found almost 200 bales of cocaine carefully packed inside a hidden compartment in a fuel tank onboard the ship. Twenty-five bricks of cocaine were packed into each bal...