Waesche was commissioned in 2010, the second ship in the Legend Class, the Coast Guard's largest offshore maritime cutters at 418 feet long. It can hold a crew of nearly 150 and is used for maritime fisheries patrols, migrant and drug interdiction, search-and-rescue operations, and law enforcement.

A Coast Guard crew seized roughly 8,061 pounds of cocaine during a recent mission in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific Ocean.

A Newport, R.I.-based US Coast Guard crew has returned home after seizing more than 8,000 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $91 million during a multi-mission patrol to the eastern Pacific Ocean, officials said.

A Newport-based U.S. Coast Guard crew seized more than 8,000 pounds of cocaine, valued at over $91 million, during a 63-day patrol in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific Ocean.

The unidentified crew member was discovered missing Tuesday morning while the Waesche was approximately 345 miles south of Mexico, according to a news release from Coast Guard Pacific Area. The crew member was last seen about eight hours earlier,

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Campbell (WMEC 909) has returned back to Newport after a 63-day mission targeting drug trafficking.