Low-profile vessels are designed to sit just above the surface of the water, allowing them to often evade detection. Their use in drug smuggling operations is not uncommon. Although they are not ...

Six men accused of attempting to smuggle drugs into the United States using a "narco sub" have been sanctioned by the ...

Narco-submarines, the clandestine vessels used by drug traffickers ... The vessels are built to be low-profile, with a hull that sits just above the waterline, reducing their radar signature.

In the early 2000s, Latin American drug cartels developed a new tactic ... The so-called Autonomous Low-Profile Vessel ranges thousands of miles. The Marines could launch an ALPV from Hawaii ...

Drug smuggling has ... several high-profile cases of narco-submarines have been reported. In 2019, the U.S. Coast Guard intercepted a fully submersible vessel carrying over 12,000 pounds of ...

low-profile, and self-propelled semi-submersible vessels from Colombia into the eastern Pacific Ocean bound for Central America and Mexico,” a federal release stated. Authorities said five ...

The answer is a prototype called the Autonomous Low-Profile Vessel, which has taken inspiration from low-profile drug running boats. "We just copied the drug lords down in [Joint Interagency Task ...

Dennis L. Noble, The U.S. Coast Guard’s War on Human Smuggling (2011). Preventing undocumented migrants from entering the United States has been a part of the Coast Guard’s mission since it ...

So the Corps is testing a prototype called the Autonomous Low-Profile Vessel. “We just copied the drug lords down in [Joint Interagency Task Force] South running drugs. They’re hard for us to ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) yesterday arraigned a vessel, MV Cooper Island ... all you do is acquire premium domains for as low as $3700 and profit as much as $65,000.

NEW YORK − A suspected Balkan drug lord dubbed the “Pirate of the Unknown” for smuggling tons of cocaine ... from South America to Europe aboard a vessel falling under U.S. legal jurisdiction.