About 5:10 p.m. the crew spotted a 25-foot cuddy cabin boat in the ocean about seven miles off Mission Bay, the Coast Guard said in a news release. But when the Coast Guard approached on a 45-foot response boat, authorities said, the cuddy cabin boat began racing south to evade arrest. The Coast Guard crew fired warning shots, but the boat kept going, so the crew fired 15 pepper-ball rounds. The smaller boat then “rammed” the Coast Guard boat, causing cosmetic damage, authorities said. The Coast Guard said all seven men aboard the boat were handed over to Department of Homeland Security.