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  1. Pro Whaling Commission

    I have a sailboat that I spend many weekends on, on the return from my first trip to Catalina about 4 years ago, I had the remarkable experience about midway between the island and LA Harbor of looking down and seeing that a gray whale was following my boat just below the keel. It was...
  2. Clarion (etc..) Smuggler final word?

    Excellent movie reference in this case too it probably fits. The question is...does anyone think he didn't snitch? Suspect he is fruequently squealing these days? 8O
  3. The Clarions are coming.....

    Actually, If I recall the DFG regs, you can have a leopard shark if it is over 36 inches. (Not very popular in most tanks) The intent was to stop those fisherman that were catching pregnant sharks and cutting the babies out of their bellies then dumping the carcasses overboard which washed up on...
  4. Clarion (etc..) Smuggler final word?

    I don't think the Daniel who worked for Craig has the command of the English Language that "Danieldm" is demonstrating here. As for another Daniel that Craig tried to set up as a front for his illegal shinnanigans and who worked briefly for SDC, He's out of the tropical fish business...
  5. Clarion (etc..) Smuggler final word?

    Immigrant smuggler from San Pedro faces sentencing Craig Lightner, a man who "plays people like a chess game," could get three more years in prison. By Matt Krasnowski Copley News Service A fidgety Craig Lightner sat in the back of a Los Angeles courtroom Sept. 1, 2004, keeping an eye on a...
  6. Clarion (etc..) Smuggler final word?

    Smuggler receives 46-month sentence The San Pedro man also will have to pay a fine of $60,000 for his role in a human-trafficking operation. By Matt Krasnowski and Alison Hewitt Copley News Service A San Pedro man who took part in a human-trafficking operation that was cracked nearly two...
  7. Clarion Smuggler Pleads Guilty

    Everything about lighter should seem trite except to those who are not large corporations who were injured by his criminal activities. As for the airborne ripoff, yeah, he was writing up 25 - 30 pound packages as weighing 1 or 2 pounds and they weren't checking very carefully. Would serve him...
  8. MERRY CHRISTMAS

    Merry Christmas Happy Hannukah Good Yule Good Winter Solstice Good Saturnalia Good Juvenalia Good Imbolc Happy St. Lucia Day Belated Happy Thanksgiving Kwanzaa is just black Hanukkah so it's already covered (I thought segregation/Apartheid was supposed to be a bad thing?) Happy New Year. Did I...
  9. Clarion Smuggler Pleads Guilty

    Man avoids jail in harbor smuggling case For his role in the relocation of 50 illegal Mexican immigrants to L.A. Harbor, the Floridian gets probation. By Matt Krasnowski Copley News Service A Florida man caught in Los Angeles Harbor aboard a luxury yacht packed with 50 illegal immigrants from...
  10. Clarion Smuggler Pleads Guilty

    You mean the El Zacatecas 12017 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles? Bordering on Mar Vista? That one is definitely in the wife's name to protect from prying eyes and judgements. The house is the Touder but it overlooks San Pedro and the Port of Los Angeles, Seems he ripped out a small pool to put in a...
  11. Clarion Smuggler Pleads Guilty

    Knowing C-Brenda, I want to have my brain disinfected... Last word was the wife was still living in that million dollar house in PV that was bought with his ill gotten gains but he puts property in his fathers name and the father protects it for C-Brenda. Word from the keys is that the wife was...
  12. Clarion Smuggler Pleads Guilty

    Curious, his wife has also got a new handle, goes by Marina....I wonder if that has to do with any port in a storm? Probably not... just more obfuscation. There have been indictments and convictions, not naming names but one is in Fed prison for his part in drug operation, one is being...
  13. Clarion Smuggler Pleads Guilty

    Not filed yet, there is a jurisdictional squabble about who get to try him for the drugs. Also, this is only the second part of the first act of the Opera, C-Brenda, is still singing that mexican Aria, not to mention about anyone h/she imagines might buy a reduction in showers and intimate...
  14. Clarion Smuggler Pleads Guilty

    From the same article at the top of this thread... "Lightner, who is in custody, could face nearly three years in prison on the immigrant-smuggling charge. Court papers state he agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and under terms of his deal he could be eligible for a hefty cut in his prison...
  15. Blue Spotted Jawfish from Baja

    Jaw fish were being sold and accounted for as "Assorted Gobi's" about 200 per week last summer, all were smuggled. They should be back in 3 - 5 years when the importer is back on the street and has a new suckers name to register his business under.

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