Loss Angeles: U.S. Coast Guard has seized 8,500 pounds of marijuana worth an estimated $7.7 million from a Mexican “panga” boat about 160 miles west of Los Angeles on Wednesday.
The pot was confiscated from a Mexican “panga” boat about 160 miles west of Los Angeles by crew members of the San Francisco-based cutter Aspen, the Coast Guard said. The drug was packaged in more than 340 bales.
“Law enforcement authorities have seen an increase in waterborne smuggling of illicit drugs, as well as illegal immigrants, from the U.S.-Mexico border as far north as Santa Barbara County,” Capt. James Jenkins, commander of the Coast Guard’s Los Angeles/Long Beach sector, Latimes quoted a statement as saying.
The marijuana was taken to Terminal Island, where the bales were loaded Wednesday evening onto trucks.
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