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Enforcing the Law at Sea—Drug Interdiction since 1886! Pt. 1: The First 30 years
—With a seizure of opium near the entrance to San Francisco Bay in November 1886, cutters of the Revenue Marine Service began a fight against maritime drug smuggling that continues to this day.
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The service’s first drug seizure at sea? The mostly mistaken case of the George E Starr
—"On August 31 the American Steamer George E Starr was seized on Puget Sound by a detail of four officers and 18 men sent from the Wolcott. Two Chinese subjects, together with a quantity of opium, were discovered secreted on board. "