COAST GUARD HEADQUARTERS (KUSI) – A U.S. citizen was in custody today on suspicion of captaining a boat that crashed in coastal waters near Point Loma during an apparent human-smuggling operation, killing three people and injuring more than two dozen others, authorities said.
The captain, a man whose name and age were not immediately available, was turned over to U.S. Customs agents following the crash, Customs and Border Protection Supervisory Officer Javier Garcia said.
At about 10 a.m. Sunday, lifeguards were notified of a vessel experiencing trouble near the tidepools at Cabrillo National Monument, Garcia said. The reporting party initially told dispatchers one person was on board.
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Posted: May 04, 2021 5:32 PM ET | Last Updated: May 4
Wreckage and debris from a capsized boat washes ashore at Cabrillo National Monument near where a boat capsized just off the San Diego, Calif., on Sunday.(Denis Poroy/The Associated Press)
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The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday suspended its response to a boat suspected of being used in a human smuggling operation that capsized and broke apart in powerful surf along the rocky San Diego coast, killing three people and injuring more than two dozen others.
The search lasted through the night led by the Coast Guard Cutter Haddock and its crew. Officials on Sunday originally said four people aboard the boat had died, but the Coast Guard on Monday changed the number to three, citing information from the San Diego County Medical Examiner s office, according to Reuters. A total of 29 survived, according to authorities
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The U.S. Coast Guard on Monday called off its search for more survivors from a boat that capsized off a rocky shoal near San Diego in what authorities said was an ill-fated migrant-smuggling operation that left three dead and five hospitalized.
The 40-foot trawler-style vessel with 32 people aboard overturned and broke apart on Sunday near the Point Loma Tide Pools, part of a federal marine national monument about 20 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said.
Officials on Sunday said four people aboard the boat had perished, but the Coast Guard on Monday revised the death toll downward to three, citing information from the San Diego County Medical Examiner’s office.
The Medical Examiner said the cause of death for all three people was drowning. Author: CBS News 8 Team Published: 10:51 AM PDT May 4, 2021 Updated: 11:49 AM PDT May 4, 2021
SAN DIEGO The San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office has released the names of the three people who died aboard the suspected smuggling boat. The Medical Examiner said 41-year-old Maria Eugenia Chavez-Segovia, 29-year-old Victor Perez Degollado and 35-year-old Maricela Hernandez Sanchez all died from drowning.
According to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, 29 others were taken to the hospital with varying degrees of injuries. As of Monday night, five remained hospitalized.
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol put out a press release that read in part, “Preliminary checks by U.S. Border Patrol agents indicate that all except two of the people on board the boat were Mexican nationals with no legal status to enter the U.S. One of the two non-Mexican individu