Memory dig on Catalina (destination for crashed helicopter with exec's from the Standard Hotel)?

Fren's I CAN NOT believe I forgot all about this story. But it happened 30 years ago and no body really believed it in totality.

So some 30 years ago, 4 young men who lived on Catalina Island, disappered for a couple of days. No one thought much of them going missing. All were friends, all were in young 20 somethings, all were "partiers" (drinking and smoking) good time guys. But since all 4 went missing at the same time, it was assumed they were off somewhere together, camping on some uninhabited place on the island, or on the mainland somewhere.

Well, they showed up after a few days with one helluva story. It was said that they had met a man with a large yacht who invited them to "party" on his yacht with him, possibly sail down to Mexico. The youths agreed and (in the days before cell phones) boarded the boat.

The story went on to say that the boat made a stop in San Diego to fuel up, and it was at that time the boat was raided by Coast Guard or ? (FBI? or some other agency) and they boys were basically tossed off the boat. They were told the man who owned the boat was planning on taking them to Mexico to harvest their body parts to sell on the black market. The CG rescued the lads but, their mission was to get the owner of the boat so, that's what they did. The young men were left to their own devices to get home (which did not turn out to be too difficult) and when they got home this is the story which they ALL told.

I did not believe the story, so upon seeing one of the young men, I greeted him saying, "Hey, how are you doing, Body Parts _"? his reaction was to look physically ill.

Oddly we never spoke of it again, which is probably why I had forgotten all about it.