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Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Coast Guard officer dies in clash with smuggling suspects

Terrell Horne III |A smuggler's vessel rammed a small U.S. Coast Guard boat off the Southern California coast, killing one Coast Guard member and injuring another, authorities said.

CBS Station KCBS reports that the small boat was deployed by the Coast Guard cutter Halibut, which was investigating a suspected smuggling vessel detected by a Coast Guard maritime patrol aircraft near the Channel Islands west of Malibu.

According to a Coast Guard statement, the smuggler's panga, which was running without lights, maneuvered at a high rate of speed directly at the Coast Guard boat, striking it before fleeing the scene.

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