
A Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations (AMO) MQ-9 unmanned aircraft system crewed by AMO and Coast Guard personnel working with Joint Interagency Task Force-South and international partners on March 17 seized 2,646-pounds of cocaine and detained three people in the Eastern Pacific during counter-drug operations. The MQ-9 team detected a suspected go-fast drug vessel and notified partner national law enforcement teams and guided them to the target. CBP says that in fiscal year 2021 AMO UAS crews…