After months at sea, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche returned to San Diego on Thursday, with over 37,000 pounds of confiscated cocaine and one less crew member.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection report three more arrests of large amounts of cocaine seized at the South Texas border with Mexico. This follows a recent trend whereby Mexican drug cartel

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche had been stationed in the Eastern Pacific Ocean from December through February to intercept suspected drug smuggling vessels off the coasts of Mexico, Central America and South America.

The FBI arrested a Mexican national charged with selling “lethal amounts of heroin and cocaine” in Horry County. Rafael Contreras, 38, was brought from Mexico to South Carolina and indicted on two-counts of money laundering and distribution of cocaine and heroin,

The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche (WMSL 751) offloaded approximately 37,256 pounds of cocaine, with an estimated value of more than $275 million, on Thursday in San Diego. The offload is a result of 11 separate suspected drug smuggling vessel interdictions or events off the coasts of Mexico and Central and South America by the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche in December through February.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection made major confiscations of narcotics and cocaine in vehicles at the border with Mexico last week, including $1 million worth of in cocaine each in California and Texas.

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche offloaded 37,256 pounds of cocaine on Thursday in San Diego. The cocaine was captured in 11 separate drug smuggling vessel interdictions off the coasts of Mexico and Central and South America in December through February.

CBP Officer Manuel Perez Jr., a 32-year-old US citizen originally from California, is allegedly a member of the La Linea, more commonly known as the Juárez drug cartel, investigators said.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection report three more arrests of large amounts of cocaine seized at the South Texas border with Mexico. This follows a recent trend whereby Mexican drug cartel appear to be sending huge loads of cocaine in single vehicles over the border.

Mexico has announced a series of major drug discoveries in recent weeks in an apparent attempt to highlight increased efforts to combat drug smuggling.

The Navy this week reported a major cocaine bust off the coast of Chiapas, where it confiscated nearly 2 tonnes of drugs.

Mexican authorities arrested two alleged high ranking members of the notorious Sinaloa Cartel this week, just days before the Trump administration designated that group and others based in Mexico as foreign terrorist organizations.