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ELINVESTIG8R
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AS FRANCISCO VILLA WOULD SAY!
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Barry A.
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San Lucas Cove is just south of Santa Rosalia, and a wonderful and beautiful place.
You break the law, you eventually will suffer the consequences---------that is the bottom line, as it should be in any "society".
Barry
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This sort of thing happens everywhere in baja...or Happened everywhere before but the military crackdown has been stepped up. Nearly everyone in every
fish camp or village has stories of this activity...superpangas coming ashore sometimes broke down, needing gas or water or a new engine etc. I
remember seeing a huge brand new pick up whiz by us on a remote beach road with one of those HUGE engines in the back of the pick up...kinda
obvious....
I'm surprised they chose san lucas cove as it is so populated and there is a base next door....duh...glad no one got hurt but it's another example
that it could happen anywhere so duck when you hear shots fired.
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Until such time as I am granted an interview with the commandante of the military base, I am gluing together bits and pieces of information and admit
freely that the accuracy of any of these statements may be secondhand and questionable. It seems, that one or two of the pangas came ashore to get
something to eat around Punta Chivato at which time they came under the observation of the military. I think the military boat was in pursuit when
they decided that they would ground the boat in San Lucas Cove. At least, there were pursuit shots fired when they hit the ground running at the
north end of the trailer park which would suggest they were actively being pursued. So yes, stupid is as stupid does since there is a military base
on the south end of the cove and there was no way out of the cove once you entered.
We had 4 or 5 military trucks screaming though San Bruno which is just south of San Lucas Cove and they were armed and ready, so they must have been
looking at any area where the boat might land.
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mulegemichael
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i agree with shari, that this sort of thing happens everywhere in baja...a few years ago i was with my family over christmas at hotel punta colorada
on the east cape....was jogging down the beach just south of the hotel when i came upon a huge bale of pot that had washed up that morning, either
having been dumped out of a panga or fell overboard...over the next week or so, lots of bricks of it all along the beach...from what i understand it
happens every year there around christmas time...whatta merry merry christmas!
dyslexia is never having to say you\'re yrros.
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Russ
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A lot of reports over the years of people coming across bails and big pangas with a lot of cargo. Once I came across maybe 15 bails on the far side of
a sand dune. Left Fast! Helos flying the coast line here for the past 4 days and again this morning. Military thick yesterday here too. 3 weeks ago I
found a new trail and drove it to see where it went. About a mile in was a huge clearing with two very clean out houses and the start of a nice stick
frame building. Also a drag for smoothing a road but not used on the trail I took in. I didn't investigate the area too much. It had a really "Stay
Away" feel about it.
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BajaGringo
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Probably a very smart move. I do think there are ways to make anonymous reports now, right?
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Russ
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The feds are thick in this area. I was watching a single engine plane land this afternoon because not 30 seconds behind him a King Air had it's wheels
down on the same flight path as the little guy. No way he was going to land! Bet me! Full reverse and stopped almost on the little planes nose! Then
there was a second King air circled with his wheels down. Sure.... there are two planes on the runway and the second plane wants down bad. Neither of
planes on the runway are moving. I can see the tail of the small guy and the top half of the big guy and still the second King Air circles, wheels up
and down on the landing pattern. This goes on for more than a half hour and the second big guy lands over the top of the other two. HOLY mackerel!
Some one reports on the radio that there are men out of the big planes with guns and I see a military truck driving towards them. Something BIG is
going on! Turns out it's a local guy returning home here. I haven't heard the story yet but I'm sure by morning It'll be a good. Oh, during about 10
minutes of that a little marine hilo was buzzing over head and there is a navy boat anchored just south of us. Not boring today.
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BajaGringo
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Pop some more popcorn and pull up a chair. Wear your Kevlar of course...
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Pescador
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Well, I talked to one of the army guys today and the story is pretty interesting. Seems that two pangas left the mainland loaded with gasoline and
marijauna, so they ended up camping on San Marcos Island. The next morning they woke up and decided they were hungry so they headed to Punta Chivato
to find something to eat. While there, they came under the attention of the military (who take special interest in 28 foot pangas with 250hp Yamahas)
and a call went out to apprehend the two pangas. Between Punta Chivato and the south end of San Marcos, they are overtaken by the military boat who
started shooting. They did apprehend one boat with one of the drug runners shot and the other wounded. The other boat is hauling full speed and
heads into San Lucas Cove with the military boat in hot pursuit. When they started hitting rocks and sand they just opened the throttle and they were
throwing rocks and sand 20 feet in the air. They ran aground at a really high speed and left the boat shooting and the military was right behind them
shooting up a storm. They ran through the trailer park in San Lucas Cove and headed up into the woods where one of the guys was caught next to the
squid plant. During a house to house search in the village of San Lucas, they found the other guy. Since they did not know the area, they ended up
coming into a cove which is the home of the local military base. So, as usual with a lot of crooks, they get the intelligence award for the year.
We are now seeing at least twice as many military trucks, fully armed, as we have ever seen before in the area and most of the local people are
really happy that they guys got caught. And they think it is really funny that they ran aground in the cove at the military base.
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Russ
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Pescador, Rumors.... you gotta love them! Two people that work here and live in San Bruno said almost the same thing happened there. Two boats and a
shoot out there too. I told them about you and your report about San Lucas but they insisted it all happened in San Bruno. On a good side to all this ALL the shrimp boats have left the area with the navy
anchored here.
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ELINVESTIG8R
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IT'S TIME TO TAKE THE GLOVES OFF
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Russ
Pescador, Rumors.... you gotta love them! Two people that work here and live in San Bruno said almost the same thing happened there. Two boats and a
shoot out there too. I told them about you and your report about San Lucas but they insisted it all happened in San Bruno. On a good side to all this ALL the shrimp boats have left the area with the navy
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The shoot out on the boat did happen just out of San Bruno, but the second shoot out was in the cove. Two boats, two shootouts. I talked to a gal
from San Lucas today and she and she said it was really funny watching the soliers trying to load their rifles, they would hit the wrong button and
drop the magazines on the ground, pump through full loads, etc. Guess the adrenelin was running in large amounts.
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Russ
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Pescador I'd love "film at eleven"
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What happened to the pot?
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Russ
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San Lucas military base was very happy place last night. But the local store owners are even happier. All the "munchies" in the town were sold out.
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shari
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Ahhh Russ....now THAT is funny...thanks for the morning giggle. This has been the most interesting thread all week...a happy ending with no
mortalities and the newbie marines got to practise loading their toys.
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Sorry Shari, there were two mortalities. The panga who lost the shootout by San Bruno had two reported mortalities.
One of the residents of San Lucas Cove got to take pictures in one of the pangas and they were holding one of the bales for photo shoots, but they
did make them put it back.
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shari
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oh my, I AM sorry for that...gosh...my condolences to the families. Do you know if they aprehended all the bad guys in the end? wow, quite the
excitement you all had the last couple days I imagine...and how scary for the people who's houses the guys were hiding in eh.
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Evidently they apprehended (dead or alive) all of the drug runners, for a total of 4. You are right, it is too bad that somebody was stupid enough to
take on this job in the first place, to put themselves at that much risk for a small amount of money that carries that much risk. At this point,
everyone is pretty vague about where they came from so we are hoping for a good newspaper account this week.
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