U.S. Coast Guard Delivers 17 Tonnes of Cocaine to San Diego

On Thursday, the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche offloaded about 17 tonnes of cocaine to a pier in San Diego, a haul worth a combined $275 million wholesale in the U.S.  

From December through February, Waesche was operating in the Eastern Pacific in the drug-trafficking zones off southern Mexico and Central America. They carried out 11 separate interdictions, despite setbacks, including the loss of a member of the crew earlier this mo…