Immigrant-smuggling suspects caught in boat
By Susan Shroder

2:00 a.m. October 14, 2009

LA JOLLA — Two men suspected of smuggling illegal immigrants by boat and dropping them at South Ponto Beach in Carlsbad were arrested yesterday off La Jolla, authorities said.
U.S. Border Patrol agents patrolling the shoreline saw the panga boat about 3:30 a.m. Agents for U.S. Customs and Border Protection then intercepted the boat about eight miles west of La Jolla and found the two men aboard.
The men, ages 29 and 49, are Mexicans who were in the country illegally, officials said.
An investigation determined that the men had earlier dropped off six people at the Carlsbad beach. Two of the six were later apprehended.


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