Report: Ton of marijuana seized, 7 arrested off Calif. coast

[Blue_Tires]

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 California’s 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

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So a ton of Mexican ditch has a street value of what? 400 bucks?

[SunSeeker]

1. Legalizing it will stop the imports!

And rocket California's economy in one fell swoop. Don't they have anything better to do with Blackhawk helicopters?

[xtraxritical]

9. No they don't have , big boys playing with their big toys is what law enforcement is all about.

Your tax dollars at work (not Romney's).

[Enrique]

2. thank god

imagine what would have happened if it got through.

[tridim]

4. Horrors!! Thousands of happy people is the worst!

We really dodged a bullet there.

[Iggo]

3. Legalize it.

[Earth_First]

5. Bleh!

Good riddance!

Maybe hundreds of high school kids will now catch their first buzz off something worth smoking...

[Arctic Dave]

6. Well, there goes my weekend.

I guess it will be meth then.





Sarcasm/

[tama]

7. Carefull with them hard drugs

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]

8. Ahrrrr. Pirates they be! n/t

[Nuclear Unicorn]

10. Buy American!

[petronius]

14. Yep! I guess CBP will now be getting a nice Christmas card from Humboldt County...

[ZombieHorde]

11. Well, I now feel safer knowing the Devil's Weed has been confiscated.

Take that, Satan!

[BigDemVoter]

12. Think of the $$ wasted on the pursuit, arrest, and prosecution of this "crime."

It's ridiculous, and it needs to STOP.

[cbayer]

13. This is not a rare event around Catalina.

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]

15. They send that shit east to the kids who don't know any better....

don't ask me how I know...

[cbayer]

17. And it is shit. When people find it floating around here, they throw it back.

[wordpix]

16. End the MJ wars! Save the gov lots of $$$ & provide revenue growing/distributing/selling