Origins of drug interdiction
March 07, 2025
March 07, 2025
WASHINGTON, March 7 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard issued the following news:
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Origins of drug interdiction
On the evening of March 8, 1973, Coast Guard cutter Dauntless made the Coast Guard's first-ever seizure of a marijuana smuggler when it stopped the sport fisherman Big L at the western edge of the Bahamas.
The case had begun two months earlier as a controlled-delivery operation of the Bureau of Narcotic . . .
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Origins of drug interdiction
On the evening of March 8, 1973, Coast Guard cutter Dauntless made the Coast Guard's first-ever seizure of a marijuana smuggler when it stopped the sport fisherman Big L at the western edge of the Bahamas.
The case had begun two months earlier as a controlled-delivery operation of the Bureau of Narcotic . . .