Court opinions from cases brought by US maritime law enforcement agencies including the US Coast Guard, US Customs, US Border Patrol, and many others.

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• 1st Birthday. MARSEC4. Goodbye
  One year ago,  this website launched as a place for MLE to share information and become the premiere “Center For Maritime Law Enforcement Excellence”….and we became just that!  Many of you followed, shared, and commented along with this site. For that, we say thank you. One issue that we ran into down the line is […]
• USCG Suspends Hook & Climb, Defaults to SEALS?
  ‎”We’ve stopped training for hook-and-climb until somebody demonstrates to me that there is a need for us to do it, or that the capability to do it [does not reside] in other places in the government,” he [Adminal Papp] said. “SEALS, for instance, I know SEALS are capable of doing it. … Do we need […]
• Mexican Nationals Use Underwater Scooter to Enter SoCal
  On February 4, 2011, US Border Patrol agents arrested two male Mexican nationals on California’s Imperial Beach after the two used self-propelled underwater devices to illegally enter the United States by sea. At about 8:45 p.m., the crew of a Customs and Border Protection Office of Air and Marine aircraft spotted two suspicious subjects in […]
• An Attack at Sea, An Ignored SOS, Prosecution for Sea Shepherd?
  Tokyo’s Institute of Cetacean Research is reporting one of their Japanese flagged Antarctic whale research vessels, the Yushin Maru No. 3, was attacked by two vessels, the Bob Barker and the Gojira, operated by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. The report, which can be read below states the activists deployed at least 10 propeller foulers […]
• The Nautical PIT Maneuver
  The Precision Intervention Technique, or PIT maneuver, is a driving technique designed to stop a fleeing motorist safely and quickly by hitting the fleeing car at a specific point on the vehicle, which throws the car into a spin and brings it to a stop. When executed by a trained officer at slow speeds on […]