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Popotla- Baja Village Has Become Smuggler's Launch Point

Woooosh - 3-1-2010 at 09:26 AM

That couldn't have been hard to figure out. Where did they think all these pangas landing in San Diego loaded with drugs and illegals were coming from- La Paz???


http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/01/baja-village-...

Dave - 3-1-2010 at 11:49 AM

And with an Army checkpoint within throwing distance.

However could they pull this off? :rolleyes:

I'm sure this comes as quite a shock to the Mexican Marines.

Bajahowodd - 3-1-2010 at 12:48 PM

I can certainly understand the "hiding in plain sight" aspect in Popotla, but where's our Coast Guard once these boats head North?

DENNIS - 3-1-2010 at 12:49 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bajahowodd
I can certainly understand the "hiding in plain sight" aspect in Popotla, but where's our Coast Guard once these boats head North?


Sleeping. They move'em at night.

Bajahowodd - 3-1-2010 at 12:51 PM

Gee. I never knew we had a branch of our armed forces that only functioned during daylight.:P

Woooosh - 3-1-2010 at 12:53 PM

$5,000 a head. $100K per boatload. Why even fish?

DENNIS - 3-1-2010 at 12:53 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Gee. I never knew we had a branch of our armed forces that only functioned during daylight.:P



Obama.

Sharksbaja - 3-1-2010 at 05:27 PM

Dennis;)

Only 140 since Oct? That's small change. I used to see that many hanging around certain Home Depots every morning!:lol:

Mexicorn - 3-1-2010 at 07:08 PM

Nothing new Lets not forget SADM and the jet ski sagas of a few years back.
Ho Hum........ Yawn.....


Dreaming of our favorite gal swimming with the floaters....
The brown stinky ones......

I got nothing more than love for ya Margie;D

[Edited on 3-2-2010 by Mexicorn]

DENNIS - 3-1-2010 at 07:11 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Mexicorn

Dreaming of our favorite gal swimming with the floaters....
The brown stinky ones......



:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

Udo - 3-1-2010 at 07:21 PM

If one looks through binoculars, from Popotla, and looks nothbound, there is a Coast Guard vessel anchored what looks like between the Coronado islands and Imperial Beach.
How the pangas get by, I don't know!:O
Perhaps the pangas have an electric trolling motor to sneak by the Coast Guard. But I thought the US had some kind of radar as well as sonar.:?:
Go figger!



Quote:
Originally posted by Bajahowodd
I can certainly understand the "hiding in plain sight" aspect in Popotla, but where's our Coast Guard once these boats head North?


[Edited on 3-2-2010 by udowinkler]

tjBill - 3-1-2010 at 07:22 PM

Popotla is still a nice place to go for cheap, rustic seafood restaurants.

DENNIS - 3-2-2010 at 09:17 AM

Exodus...Baja Style. Wonder why they can't turn this into a tourist attraction. Taking a Panga to the Promised Land should offer some good photo ops.

Woooosh - 3-2-2010 at 09:37 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by udowinkler
If one looks through binoculars, from Popotla, and looks nothbound, there is a Coast Guard vessel anchored what looks like between the Coronado islands and Imperial Beach.
How the pangas get by, I don't know!:O
Perhaps the pangas have an electric trolling motor to sneak by the Coast Guard. But I thought the US had some kind of radar as well as sonar.:?:
Go figger!



Quote:
Originally posted by Bajahowodd
I can certainly understand the "hiding in plain sight" aspect in Popotla, but where's our Coast Guard once these boats head North?


[Edited on 3-2-2010 by udowinkler]


I live a little closer to there. I think what you are seeing between the coast and the Coronados is the stationary docking buoy. The PeMex tankers hook up there to the underwater gas pipelines to the power plant.

question: Are these pangas a one way trip? Do they beach them and run for it, or do they drop off people and return south?

CaboRon - 3-2-2010 at 10:08 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bajahowodd
I can certainly understand the "hiding in plain sight" aspect in Popotla, but where's our Coast Guard once these boats head North?


There have been a series of incidents reported over the past months in the local news of Coast Guard intervention in the Carlesbad area ...

Woooosh - 3-4-2010 at 11:05 AM

The pangas are still coming north. Illegals expected to be returned to Mexico $5000 lighter in their wallets.

March 4, 2010 San Diego Union Tribune

Federal agents thwarted two smuggling attempts involving drugs and people in San Diego County waters within eight hours of each other.

About 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Customs and Border Protection agents on patrol in a vessel found a 25-foot motorboat registered in California that was docked in Mission Bay and appeared abandoned. The agents boarded the boat and found 997 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of $500,000 in the cabin and hidden under the floor, officials said.

About 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, agents aboard another customs vessel on patrol saw a 36-foot motorboat in the ocean about two miles off Leucadia in Encinitas. As the agents approached the panga, the vessel tried to escape but was stopped after a brief pursuit, officials said.

Aboard they found 12 men, four women and a 16-year-old boy, all from Mexico, who were taken into custody for trying to enter the country illegally.

Both vessels have been seized, and the illegal immigrants are expected to be re- turned to Mexico.

[Edited on 3-4-2010 by Woooosh]

k-rico - 3-4-2010 at 11:27 AM

agents aboard another customs vessel on patrol saw a 36-foot motorboat in the ocean about two miles off Leucadia in Encinitas. As the agents approached the panga..........

A 36 foot panga! :o

Outboard with a tiller??

That ain't no playa Popotla pot party panga!

The customs agents must have been smoking the booty from their last haul. "Dude, check out that triple decker panga, far out."

Glad to hear the folks of Popotla have got a growing (so to speak) business. I admire industrious people. Does a ride to La Jolla cost more?

Do you guys know the Rosarito highway pinhead Jesus is actually a warehouse used to store the pot grown in the area just to the east? Jesus was built by the cartel to thank God for all the American potheads. True story - really.


[Edited on 3-4-2010 by k-rico]

Woooosh - 3-4-2010 at 11:40 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by k-rico
agents aboard another customs vessel on patrol saw a 36-foot motorboat in the ocean about two miles off Leucadia in Encinitas. As the agents approached the panga..........

A 36 foot panga! :o

Outboard with a tiller??

That ain't no playa Popotla pot party panga!

The customs agents must have been smoking the booty from their last haul. "Dude, check out that triple decker panga, far out."

Glad to hear the folks of Popotla have got a growing (so to speak) business. I admire industrious people. Does a ride to La Jolla cost more?

Do you guys know the Rosarito highway pinhead Jesus is actually a warehouse used to store the pot grown in the area just to the east? Jesus was built by the cartel to thank God for all the American potheads. True story - really.


[Edited on 3-4-2010 by k-rico]


and who was that building below it of the lady with the huge chi-chis built for... besides me. And what do they hold? :)

k-rico - 3-4-2010 at 11:42 AM

Geez Wooooooooooooooosh, I dunno, check it out and let us know.

Woooosh - 3-4-2010 at 11:48 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by k-rico
Geez Wooooooooooooooosh, I dunno, check it out and let us know.


I'll bet she lactates "ice"...