Agents Interdict Smuggling Case After Driver Crashes Vehicle

EAGLE PASS, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to Del Rio Sector’s Eagle Pass South Station apprehended a suspected human smuggler and four migrants after they crashed while attempting to evade arrest, June 28.…

Heroic Agent Saves Drowning Juvenile Migrant in Rio Grande Valley, Texas

EDINBURG, Texas – Over the weekend, Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector (RGV) agents and partners make three significant rescues. Saturday morning, McAllen Border Patrol Station agents working near Penitas, Texas,…

Big Bend Sector Agents Experience Busy Weekend

MARFA, Texas – Last weekend was busy for Big Bend Sector agents who encountered human smuggling events, significant arrests, a narcotic seizure, and the recovery of an undocumented non-citizen. Big Bend Sector…

Agents Thwart Human Smuggling Attempt, Apprehend Driver with Drugs and Illegal Firearm

Blythe, Calif. – Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents assigned to the Blythe station thwarted a human smuggling attempt at the Highway 78 immigration checkpoint Wednesday evening, and discovered the driver of the…

Vehicle with 665 Pounds of Marijuana Ferried Across the Rio Grande

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Border Patrol agents interdict three smuggling attempts resulting in the seizure of more than $1.2M worth of narcotics. Tuesday morning, Brownsville Border Patrol Station (BRP)…

Smugglers Use Trains and Vehicle Trunks to Transport Migrants

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) Border Patrol agents arrest smuggled migrants in trains, vehicles, and stash houses. Yesterday morning, agents working train check operations in Robstown, Texas, discovered thirteen…

Agents Arrest Smugglers, Discover Loaded Firearm

JAMUL, Calif. — San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents arrested two men on Sunday who attempted to smuggle four undocumented migrants through a checkpoint, June 20. Agents arrested two U.S. citizens –…

Four gang affiliated criminal migrants caught in Texas

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) Border Patrol agents arrest two migrants with gang affiliations and two convicted sex offenders. Yesterday afternoon, RGV agents arrested 39 migrants at a McAllen,…

Female Central American migrant found dead in scorched Arizona desert

YUMA, Ariz. – Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents spent the past week working with the Mexican and Guatemalan consulates and the Yuma County Coroner’s Office to identify a woman who was found deceased…

2 soldiers charged with attempting to smuggle noncitizens

LAREDO, Texas — Two men assigned to Fort Hood, Texas, were charged in federal court Tuesday of attempting to smuggle two Mexican noncitizens to San Antonio, Texas. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s…

Mexican National Pleads Guilty to Immigration and Drug Charges

Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and William S. Walker, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Boston, announced that LUCIANO SOLIS-SANCHEZ, 36, a…

Boat with 30 illegal Hatian immigrants washes ashore near Jupiter

JUPITER BEACH, FL – The Martin County Sheriff’s Office assisted Jupiter Island Police this morning after a boat with 30-Haitian migrants washed up along the beach. Law enforcement was able to capture…

K-9 Alert Leads to Nearly 60lbs of Cocaine worth nearly $1 million dollars

SALTON CITY, California – El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a woman attempting to smuggle nearly 60 pounds of cocaine valued at over $948,000 Monday afternoon. The arrest occurred at a vehicle stop…

Joint Effort Foils Smuggling Attempt of 16 Migrants offshore

SAN DIEG0, CALIFORNIA – U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations agents took custody of 16 undocumented migrants aboard a single engine “panga” type vessel offshore of Sunset Cliffs, early this morning.…

Smuggling Attempts Lead to 63 Arrests in the Rio Grande Valley

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents team up with local law enforcement agencies to thwart human smuggling attempts. Shortly after midnight on Saturday, Corpus Christi Border Patrol…

USBP agents in the San Diego had two separate life-saving rescue missions

SAN DIEGO , CALIFORNIA — U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) agents in the San Diego Sector (SDC) had two life-saving rescue missions this weekend as summer temperatures climbed in East County. The first rescue…

565 lbs of Marijuana found in Ford Ranger Rafted Across the Rio Grande

EDINBURG, Texas – Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Border Patrol agents interdicted two drug smuggling attempts resulting in the seizure of more than 945 pounds of marijuana. Yesterday afternoon, Fort Brown Border Patrol…

200 Undocumented migrants apprehended in 5 Laredo stash houses

LAREDO, Texas – Over the course of two days, Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents, along with Laredo Police Department (LPD), and other federal law enforcement partners, located five stash houses and apprehended over…

Yuma Agents Find Two Deceased Immigrants in the desert

YUMA, Arizona – Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents found two deceased individuals in separate locations in the desert southeast of the Foothills Tuesday. An agent assigned to the Wellton station was tracking…

Migrant with Violent Felony Conviction captured

YUMA, Arizona – Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents assigned to the Colorado river corridor apprehended a group of four Honduran nationals Tuesday evening and discovered one of them had a violent felony conviction.…

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