PORT ANGELES – Four people who failed to stop at a Customs checkpoint when disembarking from the MV Coho were found in a Port Angeles hotel after midnight.
The car carrying the four people – who officers declined to identify – got off the ferry from Victoria at about 9:20 p.m. Wednesday.
Mike Milne, a spokesman for US Customs and Border Protection, said the group -all American citizens – had been pre-screened by Customs and Border Patrol agents in Victoria before boarding the ferry.
Citizenship verification is done in Victoria.
On the U.S. side, in Port Angeles, Customs officers check all vehicles disembarking the Coho in covered lanes between the ferry landing and Railroad Avenue.
