Welp.
Times are hard for illegal immigrants on the roads. I mean, just look at my story earlier today about a traffic stop in North Carolina that netted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) un hombre muy malo of Brazilian extraction (and I didn’t have time to ask Bingley how to say ‘murderous turd’ in Portugese). All that enforcement activity on the nation’s roads seems to be adversely impacting the drug trade some, too.
WEEEE!!
The I-5 interstate highway parallels the Pacific coast for much of its 1381 mile run north starting from San Ysidr, CA on the Mexican border to Bl;aine, WA, on the Canadian. 17 of those miles above Carlsbad, CA, traverse Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton. There are only a few exits and those go to heavily guarded base gates. Just about midway in that long stretch, there is also a Border Patrol checkpoint that has always been there. Strategically located so vehicles on the highway can’t exit beforehand, traffic slows down going through the massive girder-like structure rising over the highway, and usually doesn’t miss too much of a beat unless there’s a sudden flurry of activity in one of the lanes.
Or a vehicle has swerved over to the side of the freeway well before the stop, and passengers and drivers are taking off for either the Pendleton hills or the beach. Either way, their escape usually doesn’t end successfully, and at the rate traffic moves there, it can end tragically.
Orange County, CA, borders the northernmost reaches of the massive military reservation, and some Orange County sheriffs’ deputies caught themselves some of that interstate action the other day when a routine traffic stop went off the rails.
They’d been patrolling the southernmost section of their I-5 area when they signaled for a vehicle to pull over.
The driver certainly seemed ready to cooperate.
The incident began at 5:40 p.m. when deputies from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department tried to make a traffic stop along Interstate 5, according to department spokesperson Sgt. Lizbeth Gwisdalla.
The driver exited the highway, and as a deputy got out of their patrol car to approach the stopped vehicle, the driver drove onto the base.
YOICKS!
…“Our deputies did not go in, but they let military personnel know that he was on the base,” Gwisdalla said.
The two suspects, who have not been identified, entered the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in Oceanside through a base gate, according to a press release statement from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
The suspects left their vehicle in base housing.
The LA Times is being so circumspect – the suspects crashed through the gate. The one major dad and I are imagining is one of the smaller access gates at the northern end that has a housing area just behind it. There are over 38,000 family members living aboard Camp Pendleton at the various sites, and there can be up to 70,000+ people on station at any given time of the day.
It’s a honkin’ huge installation.
…The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) said the “high-stakes” incident began when two suspects fleeing local law enforcement crashed through a gate at the base.
The suspects then abandoned their vehicle in a military housing area and fled on foot, according to NCIS.
Base security immediately locked everything down, issued a ‘shelter-in-place, and commenced a search.
It took six hours to find those bad hombres.
…The suspects allegedly abandoned their vehicle in a base housing area and fled on foot, prompting authorities to launch a large-scale search and issue a temporary shelter-in-place order to protect members of the military community.
NCIS said approximately 30 personnel were mobilized as part of the operation, which involved multiple federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. Investigators also utilized intelligence and tracking resources from the agency’s Multiple Threat Alert Center and Regional Enforcement Action Capabilities Team.
After a six-hour search, both suspects were located and taken into custody without incident, according to NCIS.
What NCIS found in the abandoned car explained why the criminals had beaten feet out of there as fast as their puddies would take them.
…Investigators later discovered approximately 51 kilograms — more than 112 pounds — of cocaine and fentanyl inside the suspects’ vehicle, according to NCIS.
“Thanks to NCIS personnel, Orange County Sheriff’s Department, CA, Camp Pendleton Provost Marshal’s Office, the Drug Enforcement Administration – DEA, US Border Patrol, and other responding agencies, for your seamless teamwork and dedication to keeping our military installations safe!” NCIS posted on social media.
Officials did not immediately release the identities of the suspects or announce what charges they may face.
That, my friends, is a buttload of bad juju right there.
Two suspects arrested after crashing through Camp Pendleton gate with 112 pounds of cocaine and fentanyl https://t.co/sXkqnxDvpN pic.twitter.com/1Ty0aTZiIp
— California Post (@californiapost) June 14, 2026
Sierra Hotel to everyone, from the OC deputies to the hunter trackers and all the agencies in between who got these guys.
Well done, you!
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