It used to be rare for a "panga" boat from Mexico to hit the Ventura County coastline. The simple, open-topped vessels typically showed up once or twice a year, ferrying drugs or people across the ...

Originating in Mexico. The U.S.-bound panga boats — typically laden with drugs, and sometimes illegal immigrants — are launched from fishing villages on the outskirts of Rosarito Beach, a ...

CBS 8 takes you on board with Border Patrol to experience the dangers migrants face during risky ocean crossings near the U.S ...

Laguna Beach police and U.S. Border Patrol officers are continuing to search for five men from Mexico who are believed to have been aboard a panga-style boat that went ashore at Crystal Cove State ...

A dozen people were arrested Monday after they attempted to enter the U.S. illegally from Mexico in a small makeshift boat that washed ashore in California, authorities said.

A GPS device from the boat was found at a nearby campsite with a view of the beach and state Highway 1, according to prosecutors. The device had directions originating from Ensenada, Mexico three ...

Mexican migrant Eberardo, who survived the shipwreck of a 40-foot cabin cruiser carrying 32 migrants from Mexico to San Diego in May, poses for a photo near the border wall.

SAN DIEGO — Federal agents in San Diego detained 72 people who had been in panga boats headed from Mexico north into the U.S. earlier this week, Customs and Border Protection officials said.

Law enforcement caught them on a panga boat off the coast of Santa Barbara County last September. In the boat, officers found 45 pounds of meth and 11 undocumented non-citizens from Mexico.

Two Mexican citizens are facing prison time after they were caught carrying over 3,650 pounds of marijuana via panga boat to Santa Barbara. Jose Guadalupe Zepeda-Ramirez Miguel Rodriguez-Doranme. Jose ...

At least three people are dead and seven others, including two children, are missing after a suspected panga boat washed ashore near the San Diego area on May 5, authorities said. Four survivors ...