A US Navy destroyer responding to a distress call from an Israeli-owned Liberian-flagged cargo ship taken over by Houthi pirates off the coast of Yemen captured the pirates as they attempted to flee after abandoning their booty, the Associated Press reports. After the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Mason captured the five wannabe pirates, two missiles were fired from Houthi-controlled Yemen but landed at least 18 miles from the Mason and the other allied ships responding to the SOS from the cargo ship.