Tag: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

Only a few days shy of Mother’s Day, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists across the United States continue to inspect cut flower shipments before they reach the American public.

A high-speed chase for the driver of a pickup truck suspected of smuggling led border agents and state troopers to the Rio Grande near Brownsville on Tuesday, ending with the suspect driving into the river, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a news release.

EDINBURG — In the hallway of the women’s hospital here, Dr. Dynio Honrubia and Sister Norma Pimentel shared a friendly embrace Tuesday morning as they celebrated the beginning of their newest collaboration with the U.S. Border Patrol: teaching agents how to deliver babies.

Three people who referred to themselves as the “Suicide Squad” pleaded guilty to conspiring to smuggle more than $1.6 million worth of drugs into the United States, according a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

BROWNSVILLE — A traveler from Magnolia, Texas, was stopped at the border while trying to return from Mexico with a lot of pills this weekend, federal authorities announced Tuesday.

Border Patrol agents and Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office deputies found more than 50 people illegally in the country at a Pharr residence last Thursday, according to a criminal complaint.

A total of $1 million worth of narcotics was seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge over the weekend, federal authorities said in a news release.

A man accused of pulling a gun on a Border Patrol agent and speeding through the Falfurrias checkpoint on Sunday made a first appearance in Corpus Christi federal court Thursday.

Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents discovered 40 people illegally present in the United States inside a large metal container trying to cross the Falfurrias checkpoint Tuesday, according to a news release.

A man who authorities say used a speed boat to smuggle people into the country illegally, crossing them through the Rio Grande near Mission, was arrested by border agents Sunday.