Bales of cocaine loaded into a suspected drug smuggling

Bales of cocaine loaded into a suspected drug smuggling vessel after Coast Guardsmen aboard the Cutter Sherman from Honolulu stopped vessel following a three-hour chase 270-miles south of Guatemala in the Eastern Pacific Ocean July 27, 2016. Operation Martillo is a joint, interagency and multinational collaborative effort to deny transnational criminal organizations air and maritime access to the littoral regions of the Central American isthmus. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)