A seizure notice filed by the US.

Panga boat gaviota. The amount of marijuana seized from panga boats ballooned from 3800 pounds in 2009 to 120000 pounds in 2012 the report said. Posted on March 13 2020. Posted March 13 2020.

Authorities arrested two Riverside area men Monday after a panga boat beached in Santa Barbara County. Law enforcement personnel found the panga at San Onofre Beach within the Gaviota. Santa Barbara County sheriffs narcotics detectives seized more than 3000 pounds of marijuana early Saturday in a suspected panga boat operation south of Gaviota.

Santa Barbara County Sheriffs. - Four Mexican nationals accused of trying to smuggle more than 4700 pounds of marijuana into the United States by boat. Santa Barbara County Sheriffs officials say a 50-foot panga boat was found beached about a half-mile north of Gaviota near Hollister Ranch early Thursday morning.

Deputies located a 50-foot boat with smugglers in the process of unloading. Following the arrests law enforcement recovered a total over 200 bales of marijuana from the panga boat the Hollister Ranch Beach area and the van according to statements made in court. James Schlegal February 042011.

On Thursday March 12 2020 at approximately 330 am the Sheriffs Office Cannabis Compliance Team Detectives Narcotics Detectives K9 Units and County Air Support Unit along with the Ventura County Sheriffs Office California Highway Patrol. In early March the Coast Guard located a panga heading toward the area between Gaviota Beach and Hollister Ranch and notified the Santa Barbara County Sheriff. Panga beaches near Gaviota smugglers caught with pot.

GAVIOTA - On March 12 2020 at approximately 330 am Santa Barbara Sheriffs Office along with the Ventura County Sheriffs Office California Highway Patrol Homeland Security Investigations and California State Parks responded to the area of Gaviota Beach and Hollister Ranch to investigate reports of a possible panga boat heading that way. Government on March 31 identifies a nearly 50-foot super panga boat found along the Gaviota Coast in 2012similar to this picture of a panga found along San Onofre Beach in Southern Santa Barbara County in September 2015thats alleged to be connected to the Sinaloa Cartel a drug trafficking organization in Mexico. A Santa Barbara County helicopter assists Thursday in the interception of a panga boat loaded with drugs along the Gaviota Coast.