The U.S. Coast Guard is presently interdicting a sanctioned vessel off the coast of Venezuela in worldwide waters of the Caribbean Sea, in line with three U.S. officers.
No additional particulars have been out there as to the title of the ship or the place precisely the operation is going down.
That is the second sanctioned vessel seized by america. On Dec. 10, an elite U.S. Coast Guard tactical operations crew, with the help of U.S. Navy helicopters, boarded and seized The Skipper, an oil tanker sanctioned for being a part of a bootleg oil operation involving Venezuela.
Reuters was first to report {that a} second sanctioned vessel is presently being seized by the Coast Guard.
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