{"id":217674,"date":"2026-02-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/narco-submarine-carrying-4-tons-of-cocaine-captured-by-mexicos-navy\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T15:45:13","slug":"narco-submarine-carrying-4-tons-of-cocaine-captured-by-mexicos-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/narco-submarine-carrying-4-tons-of-cocaine-captured-by-mexicos-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Narco-Submarine\u2019 Carrying 4 Tons of Cocaine Captured by Mexico&#8217;s Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/narco-submarine-carrying-4-tons-of-cocaine-captured-by-mexicos-navy\/\">\u2018Narco-Submarine\u2019 Carrying 4 Tons of Cocaine Captured by Mexico&#8217;s Navy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/narco-submarine-carrying-4-tons-of-cocaine-captured-by-mexicos-navy\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/narco-submarine-carrying-4-tons-of-cocaine-captured-by-mexicos-navy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-21 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wired.com\">www.wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">The Mexican Navy<\/span> announced on Thursday that it had seized a semi-submersible vessel carrying nearly four tons of cocaine. The seizure of 179 packages of the drug is the latest result in an effort to curb maritime trafficking of illicit substances across the Pacific Ocean\u2014an issue also being addressed by the United States through a series of deadly attacks in the Caribbean against vessels suspected of carrying drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Omar Garc\u00eda Harfuch, Mexico&#8217;s secretary of security, reported in a post on X that the interception of the vessel\u2014known as a \u201cnarco-submarine\u201d\u2014took place in Mexican waters near Manzanillo, in the state of Colima. Three people have been arrested over suspected ties to the shipment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The Mexican navy (Semar) said that the operation involved an ocean patrol vessel, two fixed-wing aircraft, two rotary-wing aircraft, and two interceptor boats. It also received support from US Northern Command and the Joint Interagency Task Force, which provided intelligence to locate the target at sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Harfuch emphasized that this action adds to other seizures made during the past week, which have resulted in the confiscation of approximately 10 tons of cocaine. According to the secretary, \u201cthis represents a direct and multimillion-dollar blow to the financial structures of organized crime, preventing millions of doses from reaching the streets and protecting the safety of Mexican families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Since at least last year, Semar has been monitoring a transnational network that uses the routes known as La Gorgona and El Desierto to transport narcotics and other illicit goods from Ecuador and Colombia. The route includes strategic points such as the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands and Clipperton Island before reaching Mexican shores, including Punta Tejup\u00e1n in Michoac\u00e1n. According to an investigation published by N+ Focus, the final destination of these shipments is the US market.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Criminal organizations use speedboats, submarines, and semi-submersibles, often homemade from&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/narco-submarine-carrying-4-tons-of-cocaine-captured-by-mexicos-navy\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Narco-Submarine\u2019 Carrying 4 Tons of Cocaine Captured by Mexico&#8217;s Navy https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/narco-submarine-carrying-4-tons-of-cocaine-captured-by-mexicos-navy\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-21 05:00:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/6998f4dc999f4fa00835ac05\/191:100\/w_1280,c_limit\/Narco-Submarine-Carrying-4-Tons-Cocaine-Captured-by-Mexico-Navy-Security-2261992103.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217676,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217674\/revisions\/217676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}