Tag: Falfurrias

A man is under arrest after Border Patrol agents on Saturday night discovered 59 people in the country illegally inside a tractor-trailer.

Doors just keep opening for W.F. Strong, Brownsville resident, Falfurrias native, author and gravelly voiced narrator of the National Public Radio program "Stories From Texas."

A truck driver was arrested Thursday after Border Patrol agents at the Falfurrias checkpoint discovered 19 people illegally present in the United States inside the sleeper area of his tractor-trailer truck, according to a criminal complaint.

A man is under arrest after Border Patrol agents at the Falfurrias checkpoint found approximately 125 pounds of cocaine valued at nearly $4 million hidden within his vehicle.

Border Patrol agents thwarted the transportation of nearly 145 pounds of cocaine by a truck driver hauling watermelons through the Falfurrias checkpoint early Wednesday morning after the driver kept displaying nervous behavior, according to a criminal complaint.

A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a 24-year-old Edinburg man to more than 16 years in prison for holding a 4-year-old child ransom.

Federal agents on Saturday seized a little more than 128 pounds of cocaine with an estimated street value of $4 million hidden in the tires of a vehicle driven to the Falfurrias checkpoint by an Alamo woman.

Border Patrol agents at the Falfurrias checkpoint seized 110 bottles of anxiety pills from Mexico that are the equivalent of Xanax inside potato chip bags, according to a news release.

A 50-year-old Mexican man has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for attempting to smuggle nearly 200 pounds of cocaine to Atlanta.

Two people have been charged after speeding away from the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint with an unrestrained 3-year-old child in the back seat during a smuggling attempt.