Patriot Profiles: ‘You have to drill down into what’s really important’

Coast Guard maritime law enforcement never sleeps as smugglers, traffickers, and law-breakers fly on the waves toward U.S shores. Undetected drug contraband snakes its way inland coast to coast, ending up in the hands of experimenting teens, despondent adults, gang members who fight over it and addicts who can’t fight against it. It’s a cargo of documented heartbreak and loss.
Lt. Cmdr. Matthew N. Jones is based at Coast Guard Sector San
Diego, acting as head of law enforcement. He states what the Coast Guard does is critical.