The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche came back to San Diego and unloaded more than 37,000 pounds of cocaine, confiscated through 11 drug interdiction missions off the coasts of Mexico and Central and South America from December to mid-February.
The narcotics haul weighing almost as much as a humpback whale is worth approximately $275 million and comes days after a search operation ended for a crew member, the 23-year-old Bryan Lee, who is said to be lost at...