March 22 (UPI) -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection said officers based in Jacksonville, Fla., discovered two ships carrying nearly 3,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
In a statement, the agency said the Air and Marine Operations aircrews aboard a P-3 aircraft detected two suspicious go-fast style boats "engaging in transnational narcotics trafficking." The crew then passed off surveillance efforts to a Miami-based DHC-8 aircraft crew who continued to track the boats.