SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Authorities from both the U.S. and Mexico partnered together to stop a vessel suspected of smuggling people off of the coast of San Diego over the weekend.
Members of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Robert Ward encountered a vessel traveling north from the waters of Mexico into U.S. territory about 11 miles southwest of Point Loma around 4 p.m. Sunday.
The vessel was described as an approximately 24-foot center-console boat.
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As the USCG cutter prepared to deploy a small boat to board the suspect vessel, the boat suddenly turned around and started to flee south at a high rate of speed, authorities stated…