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10/12/2012 - Jay L. Clendenin]
10.12.2012. Authorities detained 25 people
early Monday riding aboard a panga boat that drifted ashore in Rancho Palos
Verdes in the early morning dark in what's being investigated as a possible
human smuggling operation.
Two vans, one registered to a Ventura
medical transportation firm, were discovered parked near a winding path leading
to the Portuguese Bend shoreline. Authorities described them as possible pickup
vehicles.
The incident follows a fatal encounter
last week off the Santa Barbara coastline in which a Coast Guardsman was killed
when two men aboard a panga gunned their engines and struck the vessel he was
riding in, tossing him into the ocean.
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