Subject: On the oil tanker seized:
-The Coast Guard grabbed it with the Navy's help but that was them being used in a Civil action on the high seas
-They had a warrant
-The tanker is one the sanctioned list and made trips between Iran, Venezuela and China loading and unloading illicit oil

https://mxmnews.com/article/e4...

According to a U.S. official familiar with the operation, the seizure was executed by the Coast Guard with support from the U.S. Navy after a federal judge green-lit the warrant roughly two weeks ago. Another official told the New York Times the ship — identified as the Skipper — had been sailing under a falsified flag and has a documented history of trafficking illicit Iranian oil. The vessel, although carrying Venezuelan crude at the time, was seized because of those Iranian smuggling ties, not because of any direct connection to Nicolás Maduro’s regime.