DHS USCG > Drug smugglers in minisubs hunted by Seattle Coast Guard crews

Seattle-based Lauren Milici, assisted by fellow

Coast Guard Lt. j.g. Tenley Barna, peers into a

cocaine-packed minisub off Costa Rica.

Smugglers in a "narco sub" tried to sneak 6.6 tons of cocaine up the Central American coast in January, but a Seattle-based Coast Guard crew boarded the vessel, arrested the four-man crew and sank the sub and its cargo. It's an ongoing, multibillion-dollar game of cat-and-mouse that shows the Coast Guard is more than a search-and-rescue outfit. 

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