SAN CLEMENTE – U.S. Border Patrol agents seized more than a ton of marijuana worth an estimated $1.2 million from an abandoned boat beached at Calafia State Park near San Clemente, authorities said Wednesday.

Around 3 p.m. Monday, agents responded to a report from California State Park rangers that a 25-foot Bayliner was washing ashore, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said in a statement.

With assistance from the rangers, agents pulled the vessel ashore for inspection. No one was found aboard the boat or in the surrounding area, the statement said.

During the inspection, agents discovered several large bags throughout the boat that contained 82 cellophane-wrapped bundles of marijuana weighing a total of about 2,400 pounds. The bundles were stashed on the boat’s deck and under its bow, said the statement.

The boat and marijuana were seized by the Border Patrol.

Anyone with information about the boat is asked to contact the Joint Harbor Operations Center in San Diego at 1-800-854-9834 or call 911.

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