RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: POT ISLAND: Remote Catalina Beach becomes the center of a major $3 Million weed bust, lead by real life Mexican Pirates

Monday, April 19, 2010

POT ISLAND: Remote Catalina Beach becomes the center of a major $3 Million weed bust, lead by real life Mexican Pirates

HIGH TIMES IN CATALINA!

Photo Courtesy of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

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.

4 comments:

Viva LA! said...: Randy...this is amazing. What if pot was legal here in California? Would we still have to deal with the Mexican Drug Lords then?; Monday, April 19, 2010 10:31:00 PM
Barbara in Long Beach said...: These Mexicans are lucky to be alive. They were on a bomb with all that fuel.

Great report.; Monday, April 19, 2010 10:32:00 PM
Pirate Reader said...: WTF. Pirates off our shores? I thought YOU were the only PIRATE around these parts. HE HE HE.; Monday, April 19, 2010 10:32:00 PM
Anonymous said...: LMAO; Monday, April 19, 2010 10:33:00 PM

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You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”

Monday, April 19, 2010

POT ISLAND: Remote Catalina Beach becomes the center of a major $3 Million weed bust, lead by real life Mexican Pirates

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