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$1 million in pot discovered at Vandenberg Air Force Base

March 8, 2013

pangaThe United States Air Force received a million dollar donation Thursday in marijuana. [Lompoc Record]

Vandenberg Air Force Base personnel discovered an overturned panga boat and at least $1 million of marijuana around 1 p.m. Thursday just north of Wall Beach.

Operators of the boat had removed its engine and left the marijuana in dark-colored trash bags camouflaged with brush on top.

Air Force investigators searched the base, but could not identify any suspects or weapons. Investigators are also unaware of when the boat came ashore, but believe it may have landed Wednesday.

The Air Force raised the level of security on the base Thursday and conducted random searches. It turned over the investigation late in the day to the Department of Homeland Security, which took possession of the marijuana and the boat. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department and the California Highway Patrol are also participating in the investigation.

In recent months, panga boats have beached in both San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties. The boat found Thursday was the first to appear at Vandenberg Air Force base, which spans 35 miles of coastline in northern Santa Barbara County.

“We have been advised of panga boats… north of the base, south of the base, but never before on our own property,” Col. Nina Armagno said.

 


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The press first tried to report this as a drug boat. So, it’s really another Panga boat, part of the invasion of California from a foreign country.


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The press first tried to report this as a drug boat.

duh

“…$1 million of marijuana…”


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So why do these smugglers waste time and money running up the coast by boat? It’s cheaper to take the train. On the East coast treasure hunters use metal detectors to check for Spanish bullion washed up on shore after a hurricane. On the West coast we look for overturned pangas full of dope.


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At some point, armed entrepreneurs will focus on intercepting these treasure boats full of pot. It should make for some interesting shoot outs on the beach and will send tourists and locals scrambling for cover. If you walk the beach, wear a bullet proof vest .


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Liars! The Air Force is IN on this! The US government and ALL their branches of the military and black ops people are involved in dope smuggling! Wake up, people!


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Pocking A


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I see a ton of thumbs down on Gimlet’s comment. I know what he says makes him sound like a paranoid conspiracy theorist. But it’s really hard not to these days, because people just refuse to believe what has already been factually proven time and time again. If you would just take a few minutes from watching your televisions and start some research, you probably wouldn’t be so quick to mark a comment like this down.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking


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Gimlet is half right. On the Texas border where the DEA, FBI, and other federal agents have infiltrated Mexican drug cartels, the feds allow their informants to complete drug deals and if the informants are arrested for murder or bringing weapons across the border, the feds threaten local attorneys and judges to keep their informants from being prosecuted. Hard to believe this is happening. It is.


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The CIA is not as shadowy and sinister as Gimlet portrays his evidence is old, from the sixties VAFB is not indochina.

the great heroin coup


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Recall Gary Webb, whose life was destroyed because of his expose series “Dark Alliance” about CIA smuggling to obtain off-books financing for their illegal wars.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6dHqP9wc3k


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“But it was Webb who found himself on the ropes. Ironically, the CIA did little to publicly counter his allegations. Instead, the media did its dirty work for them, most notably the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. The mainstream media accused Webb of exaggerating his findings.


For Webb, the most confounding part of the whole affair was that he ended up being accused of making allegations he never made specifically that the CIA-crack connection was part of a larger, genocidal plot to kill off black people. Webb never made that claim though he noted in his book, “Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion,” the inherent racism in a covert policy that reaped so much destruction on such a vulnerable segment of society.””


So just as Mr Webb was blackballed by the “media” and the government for exposing that, CCN is being blackballed by government officials, member’s of the media and bit players roc and topix trolls for example. A local conspiracy involving inherent ageism/classism/racism in a policy that affects such a vulnerable segment of our society.


I’m not saying family ties/ prado capslo are of the scale of the crack epidemic but this is what happens when someone shines a light into a dark corner.


Shame on the haters.


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What were they smoking?


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As someone that has actually been just offshore of VAFB I have to laugh at all the supposed indignation of ignorant posters decrying the security there. It’s 35 miles of some of the most rugged and pristine coastline in Calif. Most of it inaccessible. A small boat could put ashore there at night very easily and I don’t think there is much anybody could do about it. Now getting onto the actual base operations is another matter.


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Question, just where would the perps go if they ran aground on any of the 35 miles of VAB property? Inland… How would they get there? On foot… What would they do walk with bales of pot on their heads right past military security? Lead a chain of illegals on foot past the entrance gate and hail a cab?

Most of the 750 miles of California coast line is pristeen and remote, but that combined with the ever expanding drug cartel imports equals a national security threat.


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embarrassing….


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Homeland (including military) security is a big joke. This proves it. Security is a relative term, not an absolute. Missiles from Korea, check; Asteroids from space, check; panga boats & drug runners or gun smugglers, uh nope!


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Old sick people in wheel chairs, check; little girls with cancer, check…


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Geez, talk about flying under the radar…what if that had been a boat carrying terrorists? Are our military facilities this unsecured? This is shameful.


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Yeah….real nice security they have there….


Of course, on public beaches in SanDiego, we have

the panga boats filled with illegals arriving each week

in, LaJolla, Encinitas and Carlsbad, etc. It’s just a

common occurance down here, no big deal.


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My point exactly, what about a nuke device, what about bio weapons, what about 12 million more illegals or one osama bin hidin?


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And Janet Napalitano keeps saying our borders are secure.

This is a secure military site and if the dope smugglers can just run ashore here what else slips in that we never hear about?


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