Tag: U.S. Border Patrol
Border Patrol agents find 115 people inside refrigerated trailer
Border Patrol agents find 26 people inside refrigerated truck
Border Patrol found 26 people inside a refrigerated tractor trailer on Monday at the Falfurrias checkpoint, according to a criminal complaint affidavit.
Brownsville native returns home to lead RGV Border Patrol sector
A Brownsville native and recent El Paso chief patrol agent will be moving back to the Valley as head of the Border Patrol sector two months after the retirement of the former chief.
Mexican woman arrested for transporting 250 pounds of meth
DPS pilot stops plane from smuggling 13 people
A Texas Department of Public Safety pilot stopped a plane that was ready to smuggle more than a dozen people in Edinburg on Wednesday, but not before being struck by a fleeing suspect’s vehicle.
Border agents encounter groups of nearly 500 people in Valley
Border Patrol agents in separate incidents over the weekend apprehended 494 people who were illegally in the U.S., some of whom hail from multiple Central American countries in three large groups in Hidalgo and Starr counties, according to a news release.
Border Patrol stops human smuggling attempt by ambulance
Agents at the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint near Falfurrias stopped a human smuggling incident last week where the ambulance driver and his partner admitted to being paid $50 each for the job, according to a criminal complaint.
Man caught with 29 people in tractor-trailer expected $50K
A man caught with nearly 30 undocumented people inside a tractor-trailer at a checkpoint near Falfurrias on Sunday told U.S. Border Patrol agents he was promised $50,000 to smuggle them from the Rio Grande Valley to Houston, according to a criminal complaint affidavit.
Self-proclaimed Fort Hood soldier arrested after accepting smuggling job through TikTok
A man claiming to be a newly assigned soldier at Fort Hood is facing federal charges after he allegedly accepted a smuggling job through the social media application TikTok.
Ultimate sacrifice: Border Patrol names vessels for fallen RGV agents
A brief but moving ceremony took place Monday honoring fallen agents of the U.S. Border Patrol Rio Grande Valley Sector by naming patrol vessels of the RGV Sector Riverine Operations after them posthumously.
