Report: Ton of marijuana seized, 7 arrested off Calif. coast
By NBC News staff
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.
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