A suspected smuggling boat carrying nearly two dozen illegal immigrants got stuck in kelp off the coast of Southern California, was intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard, and its occupants taken into custody, according to reports. A Border Patrol spokesman told Fox News that an agent spotted a “panga type vessel” close to rocks off Sunset Cliffs near San Diego early Monday, around three weeks after a smuggling boat hit a reef in the area and broke apart. Border Patrol agent Shane Crottie told local outlet KPBS that “this location is very close to where, just a couple of weeks ago, we had the maritime event that ended, unfortunately, in three deaths.” A U.S. Coast Guard vessel was sent out to intercept the suspected smuggling boat, whose operator ignored commands, according to officials cited by the San Diego Union-Tribune. Crottie said that, at one point, the vessel got caught in some …