While "Gary", with a Coast Guard law enforcement detachment team embarked, deployed for Operation Martillo (Spanish for "Hammer"), a counter-narcotics patrol, in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, she intercepted a suspicious vessel on 4 January 2013. The Coast Guardsmen and Sailors from the ship's "visit, board, search, and seizure" (VBSS) team boarded the suspected smuggler and seized of cocaine with an estimated street value of $22 million. "This was one of those vessels we were chasing in the dark," Leatrice Daniels, "Gary"s embarked Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) agent explained, "There was great open communication with everybody involved. Everything just flowed, from pursuit to initial contact and boarding." The investigators deemed the smuggler a hazard to navigation and sank her. This case concluded a hectic week in which "Gary"s crewmembers and Coast Guardsmen boarded three boats, disrupting more than of cocaine destined for the United States with a street value of $272 million.