From the Associated Press:
19 tons of pot dumped at sea near US-Mexico borderTalk about wrong place/wrong time. BTW, the contraband three ounces of pot were incinerated in the USS Princeton's furnace. Inexplicably, three days later the entire Pacific Fleet ran out of Doritos and frozen pizza's. Must have been a Depends moment for the crew of those two boats to see a bunch of military vessels looming up over the horizon!
The U.S. Navy says an aircraft carrier group recovered about 19 tons of marijuana dumped from small boats in the Pacific Ocean near California's border with Mexico.
The Navy said Tuesday that two single-engine boats - each about 25 feet long - were spotted about 15 hours apart on Saturday. People aboard the boats began dumping plastic bags, and the boats escaped before authorities arrived.
Lt. Aaron Kakiel says no one was captured. The seizures occurred in international waters about 85 miles off the Mexican coast.
Authorities recovered about eight tons of marijuana from the first boat and 11 tons from the second. The carrier USS Nimitz and cruiser USS Princeton were assisted by the U.S. Coast Guard and Mexican navy.
