3.5 tons of marijuana seized off west coast

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SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Federal agents intercepted a small motorboat ferrying
nearly 3 1/2 tons of marijuana through the ocean about 140 miles south of San
Diego over the weekend, authorities said.

Personnel with the U.S. Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection
detected the skiff and began tracking it Saturday night, according to USCG
public affairs.

The crew of the cutter Haddock caught up with the boat and boarded it,
finding 265 bales of cannabis with a combined weight of about 6,900 pounds. The
personnel arrested the three men aboard and took them to San Diego along with
the drug haul and the fishing vessel, arriving Sunday afternoon.

The marijuana and suspects were turned over to the interagency San Diego
Marine Task Force, and the skiff was impounded by the CBP Office of Air and
Marine.

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