Suspected migrant-smuggling boat lands at famous Laguna Beach locale
LA TimesLifeguards found an abandoned, broken-down panga-style vessel stocked with life jackets and fuel cans at Victoria Beach in Laguna on Monday morning. The morning shift of lifeguards discovered the boat when they arrived around 6:20 a.m. “It was a 24-foot single outboard vessel that ran aground and capsized,” said Kai Bond, chief of Laguna Beach Marine Safety. California Trash, traffic, tempers, tourists: Laguna Beach’s summer of discontent Laguna Beach residents have for months been pushing city officials to get a handle on what they call ‘destructive tourism’ that sweeps through the small beach town every summer. Boat landings by migrant smuggling operations are not uncommon along California’s southern coast, officials said, though Victoria Beach is not a typical arrival spot.
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