SANTA ANA, Calif.—Four men have been arrested and charged with leading a smuggling ring that ferried illegal immigrants by sea from Mexico to Southern California. Federal authorities announced Monday that the arrests came after the discovery of an abandoned boat near a San Diego County beach on Friday. Agents tracked the suspects to an apartment in Anaheim. There, they found nine illegal immigrants from Mexico whose clothes were still wet and caked with sand from the boat landing.
Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, says the immigrants are still in custody....