The Coast Guard continues to search for a missing guardsman who went overboard on Tuesday while aboard USCGC Waesche (WMSL-751) off the Pacific coast of Mexico, near the border with Guatemala. The cutter was conducting routine counter-drug patrolling approximately 300 nautical miles south of Mexico when the crew discovered that a guardsman was unaccounted for,

A Coast Guard crew seized roughly 8,061 pounds of cocaine during a recent mission in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific Ocean.

PROVIDENCE — A Newport, R.I.-based US Coast Guard crew has returned home after seizing more than 8,000 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $91 million during a multi-mission patrol to the eastern Pacific Ocean, officials said.

Mexico’s navy is assisting with an offshore patrol vessel and a maritime patrol aircraft, according to the Coast Guard. “The search area and effort are vast, and the operation is being carefully coordinated to ensure maximum coverage and effectiveness,” the Coast Guard said in its release.

A Newport-based U.S. Coast Guard crew seized more than 8,000 pounds of cocaine, valued at over $91 million, during a 63-day patrol in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific Ocean.