2 Distressed Migrants Rescued Over the Weekend
YUMA, Arizona. – U.S. Border Patrol agents from El Centro Sector rescued two undocumented individuals in the sand dunes near Yuma, Saturday afternoon. The rescue …
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Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents arrest sex offender with outstanding warrant
LAREDO, Texas – Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents from the Freer Station arrested a felony convicted sex offender who had attempted to cross illegally with …
Baltimore CBP Seizes $2.5 Million in Palm Oil Shipments Under Forced Labor Finding
BALTIMORE – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized four shipments of palm oil in Baltimore since February 11 due to information indicating that …
CBP Officers in Louisville Intercept 230 Counterfeit MLB, NBA, and NFL Championship Rings
LOUISVILLE, Ky— With one league in full swing, another gearing up for their draft and the other league locked out, criminals are still trying to …
CBP Again Prevents Multiple Bologna Smuggling Schemes
EL PASO, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agriculture Specialists assigned to the Bridge of the Americas and Santa Teresa border crossings seized 230 …
VIDEO RELEASE: Air and Marine Operations Aircraft Rescue from Sabino Canyon
Editors note: click on photo for video. TUCSON, Ariz. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Air and Marine Operations (AMO) extracted a hiker suffering …
RGV Agents Arrest Multiple Criminal Migrants
EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector Border Patrol agents arrested four migrants with criminal history. On March 4, 2022, RGV agents arrested 26 …
356 Haitian Migrants Intercepted in South Florida
MIAMI— U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations, the U.S. Border Patrol, Office of Field Operations, along with federal, state, and local law …
CBP Officers Stop Multiple Fentanyl Body Carriers
EL PASO, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the El Paso area ports of entry have encountered individuals attempting to smuggle …
Lost Migrant Rescued
OCOTILLO, Calif. – U.S. Border Patrol agents from El Centro Sector rescued an undocumented individual in the Jacumba Wilderness region near Ocotillo, Tuesday morning. The …
CBP Finds Beetle inside Passenger Cabin Arriving at San Juan
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers and agriculture specialist found an unwanted pest inside the passenger cabin of an aircraft arriving …
Patrulla Fronteriza, FURA interceptan yola trasladando más de $300,000
AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico – Agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza y la Fuerzas Conjunta de Rápida Acción (FURA) de la Policía de Puerto Rico interceptaron el …
Border Patrol, FURA Intercept Vessel with over $300K in Bulk Cash
AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico –US. Border Patrol and Puerto Rico Police Joint Forces for Rapid Action (FURA, for its Spanish acronym) agents intercepted Wednesday an outbound …
RGV Agents Arrest Multiple Gang Members and Sex Offenders
EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Sector Border Patrol agents arrested three migrants with prior convictions for sexual crimes and three gang members. On …
Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents arrest sex offender
LAREDO, Texas – Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents from the Laredo South Station arrested a convicted sex offender in Laredo, Texas. The arrest occurred on …
Philadelphia CBP tells Miami Resident: ‘No Soup for You’
PHILADELPHIA – The shipment may have been manifested as chicken vegetable soup, but Philadelphia U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers soon realized that the …
Laredo CBP Officers Apprehend Two Fugitives Sought for Sexual Offenses
LAREDO, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), officers at the Laredo Port of Entry, detained two male subjects wanted for sexual offenses in …
Eagle Pass CBP Officers Apprehend Fugitive Wanted for Murder
EAGLE PASS, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Eagle Pass Port of Entry detained a wanted man with an outstanding …
Del Rio Sector Agents Arrest Previously Deported Felons
DEL RIO, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to Del Rio Sector arrested one convicted sex offender and one convicted murderer shortly after they …
Disruption of Two Stash Houses Leads to 21 Arrests
EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) Border Patrol agents interdicted two migrant smuggling events that resulted in 21 arrests and one firearm seizure. …
Multiple Criminal Migrants Arrested in the RGV
EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a Gulf Cartel member and two gang members. On Feb. 28, McAllen Border Patrol …
CBP Memphis Seizes over 634 lbs of DMT so far this Fiscal Year
MEMPHIS, Tennessee — U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officers (CBPOs) in Memphis have seized over 635 lbs of Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) since the beginning of this …
US Border Patrol Apprehends 27 Romanians After Illegal Border Crossing in Houlton, Maine
HOULTON, Me. — On February 25, 2022, a convoy of four vehicles was interdicted after illegally crossing the border near Union Corners, Maine. Border Patrol Agents from …
CBP Officers and Scientists Identify Two New Synthetic Cannabinoid Analogues
STERLING, Va. – It may not rise to the level of a Galileo or Marco Polo discovery, but a recent Customs and Border Protection discovery …
CBP Officers Seize $2.5 Million in Cocaine at Roma Port of Entry
ROMA, Texas—U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the Roma Port of Entry cargo facility recently seized $2.5 million in cocaine …
U.S. Border Patrol Announces Career Opportunities
GRAND FORKS N.D. — The Grand Forks Sector would like to announce that the U.S. Border Patrol is currently soliciting for people interested in becoming …
CBP Reducing Hours of Operation for Milltown, Maine Port of Entry
CALAIS, ME – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will be reducing the hours of operations for the Milltown Port of Entry (POE) from 6 a.m. …
CBP Officers in Portal Seize Counterfeit Entertainment Systems Valued at Over $2 Million
PORTAL, N.D. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations officers at the Portal Port of Entry targeted a rail container destined …
Let Go of Me Lucky Charms: Louisville CBP Seizes Marijuana Hidden in Lucky Charms Cereal
LOUISVILLE, Ky—Drug Smugglers will go to any lengths to ship their narcotics in and out of the U.S. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers …
Baltimore CBP Officers Seize Shipment of 29,000 Counterfeit Water Purifier Filters from China
BALTIMORE – To borrow from the 1960’s rock band The Standells, I want to tell you a story about what Customs and Border Protection (CBP) …
CBP Officers Seize Meth Disguised as Onions
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at theOtay Mesa commercial facility discovered almost1,200 small packages of methamphetamine hiddenwithin a shipment of onions on Sunday. OTAY …
Wanted Homicide Subject Repatriated to the United States
EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents, through international collaboration efforts, coordinated the repatriation of a United States citizen with an …
RGV Agents Apprehend 18 Criminal Migrants
EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents arrested and identified 12 gang members, and six migrants with criminal convictions, to include …
Laredo Sector Border Patrol Agents shuts down stash house
LAREDO, Texas – Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents discovered a stash house apprehending several undocumented individuals in central Laredo, Texas. Stash house in Laredo, Texas …
Baltimore CBP Officers Seize Opium Poppy Pod Shipment destined to Cecil County, Maryland
BALTIMORE – Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers intercepted a shipment of poppy pods in Baltimore on Wednesday that were destined to an address in …
CBP Officers at Hidalgo Apprehend Fugitive Wanted for Homicide
HIDALGO, Texas—U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the Hidalgo International Bridge apprehended Obed Pena, a male United States citizen from …
El Salvadoran Convicted of Homicide Apprehended in Rangeley, Maine by US Border Patrol Agents
RANGELEY, Maine — On February 17, 2022, U.S. Border Patrol Agents from the Rangeley Station in Maine encountered a Penske truck partially blocking traffic. Agents …
Southbound Vehicles Lanes Construction at the San Ysidro Land Port of Entry
***EDIT: Please note that this construction is postponed; there will not be any changes to traffic patterns starting Monday, February 28.*** SAN YSIDRO, Calif. – …
Over $360K Worth of Marijuana Seized by Border Patrol
EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) Border Patrol agents interdicted a narcotics smuggling attempt resulting in the seizure of 451 pounds of marijuana. …
Four Vehicle Pursuits and a Stash House Leads to 36 Arrests
EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents disrupted five migrant smuggling attempts resulting in 36 arrests. These five migrant smuggling events …
Laredo Sector Border Patrol Proudly Presents the Youth of the Month Honorees for February
Laredo, Texas – Laredo Sector Border Patrol presents the Youth of the Month honorees for February 2022. Laredo Sector along with community partners, educators, and …
Busy Week for CBP Officers at the Port of Nogales
TUCSON, Ariz. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, Port of Nogales officers seized 615 pounds of cocaine, nearly 40,000 fentanyl pills, 143 pounds …
Over $1.2M Worth of Narcotics Seized by Border Patrol
EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Border Patrol agents interdicted six narcotic smuggling attempts resulting in the seizure of more than 1,200 pounds of …
Three Failed Smuggling Attempts Lead to 19 Arrests
EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents disrupted three migrant smuggling attempts resulting in 19 arrests. On Feb. 25, a vehicle …
Lost Migrant Rescued Over the Weekend
OCOTILLO, Calif. – U.S. Border Patrol agents from El Centro Sector rescued an undocumented individual in the Jacumba Wilderness region near Ocotillo, Sunday evening. The …
Border Patrol Agents See a Rise in Train Rescues
DEL RIO, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Del Rio Sector encountered more than 30 migrants, trapped in rail cars, in 48 hours. …
AMO Secures New Orleans Mardi Gras Parades from Air and River
NEW ORLEANS–U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations (AMO) are conducting security operation to help secure Mardi Gras 2022. After canceling last years’ festivities …
CBP Officers at Hidalgo Bridge Apprehend Fugitive Wanted for Indecency with a Child
HIDALGO, Texas—U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the Hidalgo International Bridge apprehended Dionisio Perez Campos, a male United States citizen …
Two Lost Migrants Rescued in the Mountains Over the Weekend
OCOTILLO, Calif. – U.S. Border Patrol agents from El Centro Sector rescued two undocumented individuals in the Jacumba Wilderness region near Ocotillo, in two separate …