ENCINITAS: Suspected smuggling boat found on Cardiff State Beach

By North County Times | Friday, April 24, 2009 1:50 PM PDT ∞


ENCINITAS ---- U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confiscated a suspected smuggling boat found on Cardiff State Beach early Friday morning, a sheriff's sergeant said.

A surfer found the 20-foot fishing boat on shore about 6:30 a.m., Sgt. Jack Reynolds said. Neither the surfer nor deputies saw anyone who might have used it, Reynolds said.

The craft was in good condition, and inside officials found three life vests, four plastic gas cans, empty food wrappers, water bottles and empty trash bags, Reynolds said.

Federal agents responded and seized the boat.
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