{"id":525356,"date":"2010-04-12T21:05:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T01:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01347fd50054970c"},"modified":"2010-04-12T21:05:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T01:05:39","slug":"federal-authorities-thwart-smuggling-efforts-by-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525356","title":{"rendered":"Federal authorities thwart smuggling efforts by sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal authorities thwarted three separate sea smuggling attempts from Friday through Sunday, arresting 21 illegal immigrants and four suspected smugglers, including a female U.S. citizen who had allegedly stashed five immigrants aboard a cabin-style vessel .\n<\/p>\n<p>  In the first incident Friday morning, federal agents arrested nine people who had apparently beached their panga boat near San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. A man suspected of being the driver for the group was also arrested, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.\n<\/p>\n<p>  Saturday morning, U.S. Border Patrol agents boarded a boat docking near San Diego&#8217;s Mission Bay and arrested the driver, a female U.S. citizen, and five illegal immigrants from Mexico. On Sunday, agents intercepted a 24-foot Bayliner near San Diego&#8217;s Ocean Beach with eight immigrants aboard. One member of the group was charged with alien smuggling.\n<\/p>\n<p>  The interdictions signal traffickers&#8217; continuing efforts to smuggle illegal immigrants into California by sea to avoid increased enforcement over land.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Richard Marosi in San Diego<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal authorities thwarted three separate sea smuggling attempts from Friday through Sunday, arresting 21 illegal immigrants and four suspected smugglers, including a female U.S. citizen who had allegedly stashed five immigrants aboard a cabin-style vessel . In the first incident Friday morning, federal agents arrested nine people who had apparently beached their panga boat near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4565,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}