article_snippet.sent: A Coast Guard cutter arrived in San Diego on Thursday with more than 14 tons of cocaine, part of what authorities has described as a surge of seizures near Central and South America.
article_snippet.sent: The cocaine, valued by the Coast Guard at $424 million, was seized by U.S. and Canadian forces in 19 separate incidents in the eastern Pacific Ocean near Central and South AmericaCentral and South America.
article_snippet.sent: It included a 10½-ton bust from a coastal freighter, the largest maritime drug interdiction in that area since 2009.
article_snippet.sent: A crewman from the Coast Guard Cutter Boutwell guards some of more than 28,000 pounds of cocaine, seized at sea and offloaded at Naval Base San Diego on Thursday .
article_snippet.sent: cocaine was seized by U.S. and Canadian forces in 19 separate incidents in the eastern Pacific Ocean near Central and South America Pacific Ocean Central and South America .
article_snippet.sent: U.S. and Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy ships have seized more than 28 tons of cocaine valued at $848 million in the eastern Pacific region near Central and South America in the last six months, resulting in 101 arrests.
article_snippet.sent: In October, the Cutter Boutwell crew turned over more than 14 tons of cocaine to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
article_snippet.sent: In October, its crew turned over more than 14 tons of cocaine to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
article_snippet.sent: U.S. Navy and Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy ships have seized more than 28 tons of cocaine valued at $848 million in the last six months .
highlights_snippet.sent: The cocaine was seized by U.S. and Canadian forces in 19 separate incidents in the eastern Pacific Ocean near Central and South America .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The cocaine included a 10½-ton bust from a coastal freighter, the largest maritime drug interdiction in that area since 2009 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: U.S. Navy and Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy ships have seized more than 28 tons of cocaine valued at $848 million  in the last six months .
  