The U.S. Coast Guard cutter the USCGC Thetis seized more than $211 million worth of cocaine in the Pacific in eight days of smuggling interdictions this month.

The total haul, announced this week, came about despite elusive smugglers, a storm interrupting efforts and the cutter having to cover a large swath of the Pacific. On Thursday, May 29, the cutter reached Port Everglades and offloaded more than 28,000 pounds of cocaine bales from the ship, all captured in just over a week earlier this month.

Although the USCGC Thetis, a 270-foot-long cutter, is based out of Key West as part of Coast Guard Atlantic Area Command, it was operating along the Pacific coast. It, and a MH-65 Dolphin helicopter embarked on it, located several naval drug stashes, seizing more than a dozen tons.

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