HIGH TIMES IN CATALINA!
By Randy Economy
www.Economy4ABC.Blogspot.com
April 19, 2010
10:00 p.m.
Catalina Island, CA:
It was like something out of a Johnny Deep Pirate movie.
But today's mega high seas pot bust in a remote Catalina Island beach is being called a major arrest on the war on drugs from Mexican Drug Lords into Los Angeles.
A real high seas drama that included real "pirates" and a makeshift 30-foot ponga-type boat with three male Mexican nationals was discovered on Catalina Island by Los Angeles County Sheriff's officials on Monday.
The homemade boat, had run aground on a very remote beach on the southwest side of Catalina Island outside of the city of Avalon. The boat was a flat bottomed specially rigged ocean-going motorboat that was powered by two 250-horsepower motors. The small boat was literally a floating bomb with over 400 gallons of fuel was on the boat in gas containers.
Once the three pirates ran onto the beach, they unloaded a massive amount of marijuana in multiple water proof bundles.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputies detain the three Mexican nationalists with the help of the United States Coast Guard. They are all under arrest tonight for Transportation of Narcotics and were booked at a Federal facility (probably in Downtown Los Angeles).
After seeing the massive pot packets thrown all over the rocky beach side cliffs, transporting the weed back to the mainland proved to be tricky for law enforcement.
When all gathered, and accounted for, more than 4,000 pounds of the high end Mexican pot had a value of more than $3 million/
"These arrests and recovery were the direct result of a diligent and observant Sheriff's Department employee," said LASD Captain Mike Parker.
"He (the employee) called for backup from other Sheriff's Department and United States Coast Guard Personnel, and we has a very successful outcome," Parker added.
"It took dozens of LASD Deputies several hours to load the large rescue helicopter, and due to the size of the seizure two helicopter flights were needed to transport the marijuana to the mainland," he said.
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4 comments:
Randy...this is amazing. What if pot was legal here in California? Would we still have to deal with the Mexican Drug Lords then?
These Mexicans are lucky to be alive. They were on a bomb with all that fuel.
Great report.
WTF. Pirates off our shores? I thought YOU were the only PIRATE around these parts. HE HE HE.
LMAO
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