Boarding team members from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf work to retrieve bales of contraband from the water that were thrown overboard by suspected smugglers in January 2015. The suspected smugglers were intercepted by Bertholf during a routine patrol in the Eastern Pacific during their recent deployment off the coast of Central America in support of Joint Interagency Task Force South counter-narcotics operations. During the deployment, Bertholf’s crew detected and boarded a number of suspicious vessels, locating and seizing more than 2,600 pounds of illegal narcotics and detaining a number of individuals suspected of smuggling. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Coast Guard Cutter Bertholf boarding team members.