Coast Guard intercepts pleasure craft carrying three undocumented migrants

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A 20-foot pleasure craft carrying three undocumented migrants was seized Saturday off the San Diego coast.

Around 2:40 p.m., Coast Guard Cutter Terrell Horne conducted a routine security boarding of the vessel about two miles south of Point Loma, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a news release Monday.

During the search, Coast Guard officials found the vessel displayed no registration or documentation and none of the occupants had authorization to the U.S.

The suspected smuggling vessel and people on board were taken to Ballast Point and transferred to the Department of Homeland Security partners.

Also on Saturday, a Coast Guard ship fired at and disabled a boat carrying suspected undocumented migrants during a high-speed chase in San Diego Bay. All eight people and the boat were taken to Ballast Point and were transferred to awaiting Department of Homeland Security partners. 

Early Sunday morning, Border Patrol agents apprehended nine people suspected of being in the U.S. without documents after a boat washed ashore in La Jolla and people were seen running from it.