Federal authorities intercepted a smuggling vessel carrying 21 undocumented immigrants near San Clemente Island, and one of the passengers was found unresponsive and later died at a hospital, officials said Friday.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations’ Marine Interdiction agents responded around noon Wednesday after Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach received a report from a good Samaritan about the suspected smuggling boat. <\/p>\n
The vessel was located by a Coast Guard Los Angeles-Long Beach boat crew.<\/p>\n
According to the Coast Guard, there were 21 undocumented immigrants aboard the vessel, and a 56-year-old man was found unresponsive, prompting authorities to begin performing CPR. <\/p>\n
“A Coast Guard Station Ventura MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew was diverted to conduct a medical evacuation,” officials said, noting that the aircrew hoisted the man and continued administering CPR while transporting him
to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Westwood. <\/p>\n
Medical personnel at the hospital managed to restore the man’s pulse, but he later died, according to the Coast Guard. <\/p>\n
The other 20 immigrants were detained and taken into the custody of U.S Border Patrol personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal authorities intercepted a smuggling vessel carrying 21 undocumented immigrants near San Clemente Island, and one of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[15610,48,52,51,47,50,49,10808],"class_list":["post-421240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-coast-guard","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-san-clemente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}