Report: Ton of marijuana seized, 7 arrested off Calif. coast
Source: NBC News
More than a ton of marijuana was seized and seven people arrested when U.S. border agents backed by a Blackhawk helicopter intercepted a sailboat and another small vessel in the sea off Californias Santa Catalina Island, according to a report.
The Los Angeles Times said four Mexican citizens on a panga boat, which was carrying the drugs, were arrested along with three U.S. citizens on the sailboat.
A loaded shotgun, a .40-caliber pistol and night vision equipment also were found, the paper said.
We are beginning to see this as a more common tactic: Smugglers attempting to move contraband from open hull panga boats to recreational vessels, Keley Hill, director of Marine Operations for CBP in San Diego, said in a statement issued to the Times.
The smugglers think that when the recreational vessel moves in to shore, it will blend in with legitimate boating traffic off of the Southern California coastline and make it much more difficult for us to detect illegal activity, Hill added.
Read more: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/24/13452833-report-ton-of-marijuana-seized-7-arrested-off-calif-coast
So a ton of Mexican ditch has a street value of what? 400 bucks?
SunSeeker
(51,740 posts)And rocket California's economy in one fell swoop. Don't they have anything better to do with Blackhawk helicopters?
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)Your tax dollars at work (not Romney's).
Enrique
(27,461 posts)imagine what would have happened if it got through.
tridim
(45,358 posts)We really dodged a bullet there.
Iggo
(47,574 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Good riddance!
Maybe hundreds of high school kids will now catch their first buzz off something worth smoking...
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)I guess it will be meth then.
Sarcasm/
tama
(9,137 posts)Just get drunk, get in a bar fight, grope strange women, break couple windows and lose your wallet and shoes like normal people do.
Bonhomme Richard
(9,000 posts)Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)petronius
(26,606 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Take that, Satan!
BigDemVoter
(4,157 posts)It's ridiculous, and it needs to STOP.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)Pangas full of MJ on the rocks or beach. Crates floating in the water.
Since the MJ in California is prime and this stuff is not, we always wonder where it is headed.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)don't ask me how I know...