On 24 October 2024, Middle District of Florida’s Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle held that Congress may punish maritime drug trafficking conspirators even if they are never on the high seas in U.S. v. Montero-Monsavlo, No. 8:21-CR-377-KKM-AEP, 2024 WL 4534222 (M.D. Fla. Oct. 21, 2024). On 27 August 2019, CG LEDET aboard a Dutch vessel encountered…