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forsailbyowner · 21-07-2008, 14:31

The coast guard has always been professional and cool headed in every instance that I have dealt with them. The only time they boarded was after they asked "permission to board". I was boarded by homeland security and they were a totally differenty story, they snuck up behind us 12+ mi offshore and boarded us with guns drawn without asking questions. They harrassed and threatened and searched the boat and came up with a small amount of marijuana a passenger was carrying. They then forced us to follow them into clearwater florida where they turned me over to the pinellas county police. I took a $5000 lawyer bill to find out I was boarded illegally , was out of floridas and the united states jurisdiction , You do NOT!! have to let anyone board your boat without a search warrant. It is a right guaranteed in the constitution. They may hold you and get a search warrant but not board your boat without one. To think that they violated my constitutional rights and broke some way serious laws to harass me for someones bag of pot that was on my boat really still burns me up.

21-07-2008, 14:31	#38
forsailbyowner Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Tampa to New York Boat: Morgan 33 OutIsland, Magic Posts: 445	Nazi homeland security The coast guard has always been professional and cool headed in every instance that I have dealt with them. The only time they boarded was after they asked "permission to board". I was boarded by homeland security and they were a totally differenty story, they snuck up behind us 12+ mi offshore and boarded us with guns drawn without asking questions. They harrassed and threatened and searched the boat and came up with a small amount of marijuana a passenger was carrying. They then forced us to follow them into clearwater florida where they turned me over to the pinellas county police. I took a $5000 lawyer bill to find out I was boarded illegally , was out of floridas and the united states jurisdiction , You do NOT!! have to let anyone board your boat without a search warrant. It is a right guaranteed in the constitution. They may hold you and get a search warrant but not board your boat without one. To think that they violated my constitutional rights and broke some way serious laws to harass me for someones bag of pot that was on my boat really still burns me up.