The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Stone offloads a pallet of seized drugs at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Nov. 19, 2025. (Petty Officer 2nd Class Brandon Hillard/U.S. Coast Guard) The U.S ...

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A Fort Myers attorney and his nephew were reported missing after a fishing trip off the Southwest Florida coast. The U.S. Coast Guard found their boat floating upright but there were no signs of the ...

The U.S. Coast Guard closed out 2025 with record success in maritime drug interdictions, seizing more than 511,000 pounds of narcotics valued at more than $3.8 billion, the service announced in a news ...

Cutters are still stopping smugglers and seizing drugs, but the prosecutions of go-fast boat crews are dwindling in a realignment of federal resources. For the most part, people captured by the Coast ...