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by   A Coast Guard Response Boat-Medium crew conducts search patterns by water during a search and rescue exercise near Kapalua, Maui, Oct. 24, 2019. (Jim Connor/U.S. Coast Guard) (Tribune News Service) — Maritime migration from Cuba to South Florida this year was on course to be the busiest it has been in nearly four years. But in recent weeks, it has abruptly stopped — and U.S. officials are uncertain why. Officials with the Coast Guard and other federal agencies responsible for policing migration confirmed this week that they have not encountered any person from Cuba at sea or o...

All interdictions took place on Friday, May 21. In the first event, the Cutter Kathleen Moore’s crew located a migrant vessel and notified Sector Key West watchstanders, approximately 45 miles north of Bahia Honda, Cuba. In the second, the Coast Guard Cutter Resolute’s crew spotted and rescued migrants from the water, approximately 16 miles south of Key West. Cutter Resolute’s crew transferred the migrants to Cutter Kathleen Moore. In the third event, a Coast Guard Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircrew spotted a rustic vessel and notified Sector Key West watchstanders, ...

The most recent packages washed up on Wednesday and Thursday on the Islamorada shoreline.

Officials: Packages of cocaine keep washing ashore the Florida Keys Published  FLORIDA KEYS - Packages of cocaine keep washing ashore the Florida Keys. The most recent packages washed up on Wednesday and Thursday on the Islamorada shoreline. Each package weighed about 2.4 pounds (1.1 kilograms), Adam Hoffner, a U.S. Border Patrol spokesman, told the Miami Herald. TRENDING: On Monday night, anglers in Lower Matecumbe Key found a 2.4-pound (1.1 kilogram) package of cocaine. At the start of the month, a boater off Marathon discovered a large sack filled with five bundles of marijuana weighing ...

On two different days this past week, citizens reported finding a package of cocaine on the shoreline of Islamorada. Each weighed about 1.1 kilograms.