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Mensaje: <blockquote data-quote="Monchi" data-source="post: 286673" data-attributes="member: 297">CBP Air and Marine Directs Interdiction of Semi-Sub Smuggling Vessel (Wednesday, August 22, 2007) Washington - A Jacksonville, Fla.-based U.S. Customs and Border Protection P-3 Orion aircraft participated in an operation 7 p.m. Sunday in the Eastern Pacific Ocean that resulted in the interdiction of approximately 5 metric tons of cocaine. CBP’s surveillance aircraft tracked a semi-submerged smuggling vessel designed to avoid detection.Working with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard, CBP’s Air and Marine crew located, tracked and coordinated the interdiction of a self-propelled, semi-submersible vessel loaded with an estimated $352 million of cocaine. Additionally, four suspected smugglers were taken into custody. <img src="http://206.241.31.141/ImageCache/cgov/content/newsroom/press_5freleases/2007/aug/08222007_5f2_2ectt/v2/image/1/semisub_5fweb.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Imagen tamaño completo: <a href="http://206.241.31.141/ImageCache/cgov/content/newsroom/press_5freleases/2007/hires_5fnr/semisub_2ejpg/v1/semisub.jpg">http://206.241.31.141/ImageCache/cgov/content/newsroom/press_5freleases/2007/hires_5fnr/semisub_2ejpg/v1/semisub.jpg</a>As part of ongoing western hemisphere tracking operations, CBP Air and Marine’s P-3 aircraft was patrolling in the Eastern Pacific when the crew spotted the submersible vessel.The P-3 aircraft then guided a U.S. Navy ship to the scene as the suspects scuttled the vessel along with the majority of the contraband aboard. Coast Guard law enforcement detachment personnel made the arrests and seized 11 cocaine bales (1,210 pounds).U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Air and Marine operates a P-3 aircraft fleet from Corpus Christi, Texas and Jacksonville that provides Transit Zone surveillance operations. The P-3 Operations Center-Jacksonville, based at Cecil Field, has coordinated more than 32 metric tons of cocaine interdictions this fiscal year worth $ 2.2 billion.CBP’s Office of Air and Marine operates aircraft and vessels throughout the nation and the western hemisphere to help secure the United States borders. Its fleet includes P-3 Orion long-range surveillance and patrol aircraft supporting hemispheric interdiction operations. These airplanes, and their crews, operate throughout the United States, Central and South America prosecuting any threats to United States and it citizens.U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control, and protection of our Nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.US Customs and Borders Protection<a href="http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/08222007_2.xml">http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/news_releases/08222007_2.xml</a></blockquote>

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