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US Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, P-3 crews assisted in three huge cocaine seizures in May. In the largest seizure, a CBP crew spotted and tracked a go-fast smuggler boat before directing a US Coast Guard cutter to intercept the vessel on 18 May. The smuggler subsequently ran aground near the Nicaragua-Honduras border. Nicaraguan authorities reported recovering 113 bales of cocaine weighing 6,215 pounds and valued at more than $56 million. Through June, CBP's P-3 Air Wing had seized more than 98,000 pounds of cocaine in fiscal year 2008 with a street value of more than $890 million. CBP's Air and Marine P-3 operations are composed of two operational facilities, one in Corpus Christi, Texas, and one in Jacksonville, Florida.
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