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Coast Guard Seizes 1,200 lb. of Marijuana from Recreational Boat off Point Loma

August 9, 2017

A boater having battery trouble in the Ocean off Point Loma, California, called the US Coast Guard for help. They came... and arrested the boater and a crewmember when 1,200 pounds of pot was discovered aboard the disabled boat.

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Sea Otter transfers packages of suspected marijuana from a vessel approximately 29 miles southwest of Point Loma, San Diego, on August 6, 2017. The interdiction yielded approximately 1,200 pounds of contrabandU.S. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Coast Guard Cutter Sea Otter/released)