Tag: Falfurrias

A 34-year-old city council member from Reynosa admitted to attempting to smuggle nearly a million dollars worth of cocaine through the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint.

An Edinburg man who was arrested Tuesday, Aug. 29 for attempting to smuggle nearly three dozen people in an RV through the Falfurrias checkpoint changed his story several times and couldn't remember some details because he was high on methamphetamine, according to a criminal complaint.

Border Patrol agents arrested a combative man on Wednesday after he fled the Falfurrias checkpoint and kept yelling that "he wanted someone with jurisdiction to pull him over" during a pursuit, according to a criminal complaint.

A grandfather and his two grandsons were arrested at the Falfurrias checkpoint Tuesday afternoon after Border Patrol agents found two people illegally present in the United States inside their vehicle.

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A Texas man was arrested at the Falfurrias checkpoint Wednesday afternoon after Border Patrol agents found nearly 250 pounds of cocaine concealed within his tractor trailer, according to a probable cause affidavit.

A man was arrested at the Falfurrias checkpoint early Monday morning after Border Patrol agents found 29 people locked inside a horse trailer, according to a criminal complaint.

Border Patrol agents arrested a man at the Falfurrias checkpoint after the agents discovered a man illegally present in the United States inside a "hollowed-out" welding machine, according to a criminal complaint.

A federal magistrate judge has ordered a Reynosa city councilor released from custody after dismissing charges against her that alleged she attempted to smuggle around 93 pounds of cocaine through the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in Falfurrias.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A city councilor from the Mexican border city of Reynosa has been arrested at a checkpoint in Texas after U.S. border patrol agents found about 93 pounds (42 kilograms) of cocaine in her car, prosecutors said.