Five Years for Alien Smuggling, Ramming Coast Guard Vessel
by U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of California
SAN DIEGO – Mexican national, Jesus Jeovanny Alcaraz-Valdez was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to 60 months in prison for bringing in nearly a dozen undocumented migrants for financial gain and ramming a Coast Guard vessel in an attempt to escape law enforcement.
At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Jinsook Ohta described...
Coast Guard, partner agencies conduct mass rescue exercise off San Diego coast
Coast Guard members from Sector San Diego and partnership agencies conduct mass rescue exercises off the San Diego coast Sept. 14, 2021. (U. S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Adam Stanton)
SAN DIEGO — Coast Guard personnel, San Diego and Los Angeles county lifeguards, harbor police, emergency response organizations and first responders conducted a mass rescue exercise off the San...
Coast Guard, partner agencies intercept approximately 1,400 lbs of marijuana off San Diego coast
Chief Petty Officer Frederick Roundy, the Executive Petty Officer aboard Coast Guard Cutter Dorado, places a crossed-out marijuana decal, which signifies a marijuana seizer, along the side of the cutter, August 1, 2019. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jordan Akiyama)
SAN DIEGO — Agencies from the Department of Homeland Security detected and interdicted a suspected smuggling boat...
Coast Guard searching for missing fisherman in La Jolla
SAN DIEGO — The Coast Guard is searching for a missing man after the vessel he and four others were in capsized in the surf at Windansea Beach, in La Jolla, Wednesday.
Anyone with any information about the missing or rescued men are asked to contact the Coast Guard’s Joint Harbor Operations Center at 619-278-7033.
At approximately 6 p.m. Wednesday, watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector San...
Coast Guard and Bainbridge Island Fire and Rescue Team rescue two people near Manchester, Wash.
SEATTLE — The Coast Guard and Bainbridge Island Fire and Rescue Team came to the aid of two kayakers in distress approximately half mile east of Manchester, Wash., Wednesday.
Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound received a call reporting two people in the water waving their arms and screaming for help at approximately 6:20 p.m.
Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound launched 45-foot response boat from Station...
