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<h2 id="releaseHeadline">Coast Guard: HISTORIC COCAINE REMOVALS</h2>
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<p><b>What:</b></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Coast Guard removed more than 416,600 pounds of cocaine worth more than $5.6 billion in Fiscal Year 2016, which ran from Oct. 1, 2015, to Sept. 30, 2016, making this the largest amount of drugs the service has ever seized in a single fiscal year.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Coast Guard National Security Cutters from Alameda have seized more than $1.1 billion worth of cocaine in Fiscal Year 2016.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Coast Guard also apprehended 585 suspected drug smugglers, which is another all-time record for the service in a single fiscal year.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Coast Guard will release video and details from a self-propelled semisubmersible interdiction by the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche from Alameda, California, which is returning from a deployment in drug transit zones near Central and South America.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Who:</b></span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Vice Adm. Fred Midgette, commander, Coast Guard Pacific Area</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Capt. James Passarelli, commanding officer, Cutter Waesche</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Crewmembers aboard the Cutter Waesche as requested</span></li>
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Coast Guard: HISTORIC COCAINE REMOVALS
US Coast Guard Cutter Dependable moved to home port in Virginia Beach.