U.S. Customs and Border Protection Media Releases Update

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Patrulla Fronteriza y DPS Rescatan a Mujer de Montaña
11/17/2017 05:39 PM EST

TUCSON, Ariz. – Agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza de las estaciones de Tucson y Three Points rescataron a una mujer de las montañas al oeste de Three Points, Arizona el Miercoles. Agentes recibieron una llamada de una inmigrante Guatemalteca de 18...
Nogales CBP Officers Seize Hard Drugs at Port
11/17/2017 04:11 PM EST

TUCSON, Ariz. – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Arizona’s Port of Nogales arrested three U.S. citizens for attempting to smuggle $923,000 worth of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine on Thursday afternoon. Officers working at the...
Agents Arrest Tucson Residents for Human Smuggling
11/17/2017 04:03 PM EST

TUCSON, Ariz. – Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents from the Nogales Station arrested two United States citizens from Tucson, Arizona for smuggling one illegal alien in the trunk of a car stopped at the Interstate 19 immigration checkpoint Thursday...
Agents, DPS Rescue Migrant Woman From Mountain
11/17/2017 03:43 PM EST

TUCSON, Ariz. – Border Patrol agents from the Tucson and Three Points Sub-Station rescued a woman in distress, requiring helicopter extraction from a treacherous mountain top west of Three Points on Wednesday afternoon. Shortly after noon Tucson...
Dulles CBP Seizes $40k in Unreported Currency from Ghana-bound Man
11/17/2017 03:35 PM EST

STERLING, Va., — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized $40,900 from a man boarding a flight to Ghana last Thursday at Washington Dulles International Airport. The man, who CBP has not named because he was not criminally charged,...
Border Patrol Arrests MS-13 Gang Member
11/17/2017 02:51 PM EST

WILLISTON, N.D. - A Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang member was arrested by Border Patrol agents assigned to Grand Forks Sector. A Border Patrol vehicle sits outsideof Portal N.D.The incident began at about 7 p.m., on November 15th, when Border Patrol...