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Date: April 16, 2007
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| DIRECTOR OF COUNTERNARCOTICS ENFORCEMENT VISITS LOCAL CUTTER
NOTE: Video and high-resolution photos of the Coast Guard Cutter Dallas' March 29 drug offload. CHARLESTON, S.C. - The Department of Homeland Security's Director of the Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement will visit the Coast Guard Cutter Dallas, SeaHawk, and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center here Tuesday. Director Uttam Dhillon will tour Dallas and then participate in a ceremony at Tuesday 9 a.m. to add two new cocaine "snowflake" stickers to the bridge wing on Dallas to commemorate Dallas' most recent drug interdictions. During Dallas' last two patrols, the crew interdicted 790 pounds of cocaine in two separate air-drop seizures and caused several drug-smuggling delivery disruptions. The two cocaine snowflake stickers will join 18 snowflakes and 17-marijuana leafs that currently adorn the Dallas' side. Each sticker represents one cocaine or marijuana bust. The crew of Dallas recently returned to Charleston from a 66-day patrol and is scheduled to leave on patrol again later this Spring. The Dallas is a 378-foot high endurance cutter that normally spends more than six months away from its homeport of Charleston conducting missions such as law enforcement, search and rescue, homeland security and national defense. Local media wishing to attend should contact Lt. j.g. Kathryn McCormack at 843-308-9639 or at kmccormack@cgcdallas.uscg.mil. Due to security requirements aboard the FLETC reservation, all media must confirm their visit before Tuesday 8 a.m. Video can only be played using Quick Time Player: Video #1 - Download by clicking here. Video #2 - Download by clicking here. Video #3 - Download by clicking here. Video #4 - Download by clicking here. Video #5 - Download by clicking here. Video #6 - Download by clicking here. To download photos, please right click on the thumbnail and select "save as:"
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Crew members of the Coast Guard Cutter Dallas salute the flag during colors after a cocaine offload at Naval Station Mayport, Fla. The crew handed 185 bales of cocaine to federal agents. Approximately 450 pounds of the cocaine was seized by law enforcement crews of the Dallas after they thwarted an apparent attempt by smugglers drop the drugs to a small smuggling boat from an airplane. Coast Guard photograph by PA1 Donnie Brzuska, PADET Jacksonville.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Seaman Thomas Chegin of the Coast Guard Cutter Dallas from Charleston, S.C., ensures security for his shipmates while they offload more than 9,000 pounds of cocaine at Naval Station Mayport, Fla. The crew turned 185 bales of cocaine to federal agents. Approximately 450 pounds of the cocaine was seized by law enforcement crews of the Dallas after they thwarted an apparent attempt by smugglers drop the drugs to a small smuggling boat from an airplane. The rest of the cocaine was seized in two busts in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Coast Guard photograph by PA1 Donnie Brzuska, PADET Jacksonville.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -Five bales of cocaine await transfer to federal agents during an offload more than 9,000 pounds of cocaine by the crew of Coast Guard Cutter Dallas at Naval Station Mayport, Fla. The crew handed 185 bales of cocaine to federal agents. Approximately 450 pounds of the cocaine was seized by law enforcement crews of the Dallas after they thwarted an apparent attempt by smugglers drop the drugs to a small smuggling boat from an airplane. The rest of the cocaine was seized in two busts in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Coast Guard photograph by PA1 Donnie Brzuska, PADET Jacksonville.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Seaman Thomas Chegin of the Coast Guard Cutter Dallas from Charleston, S.C., provides security for his shipmates while they offload more than 9,000 pounds of cocaine at Naval Station Mayport, Fla. The crew handed over 185 bales of cocaine to federal agents. Approximately 450 pounds of the cocaine was seized by law enforcement crews of the Dallas after they thwarted an apparent attempt by smugglers drop the drugs to a small smuggling boat from an airplane. The rest of the cocaine was seized in two busts in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Coast Guard photograph by PA1 Donnie Brzuska, PADET Jacksonville. ### ###
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