Crew on the Coast Guard vessel Cutter Stratton spent over four hours offloading 66,000 pounds of cocaine, with a street-value of over $1 billion, marking one of the largest cocaine offloads in US history. Coast Guard Commandant Paul Zukunft greeted the ship on its return to port, telling the crew that the drug smugglers were "vulnerable" because they were on the Coast Guard's "home-turf.