Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents encountered an armed smuggler as he attempted to move a group of six migrants into the U.S. interior.
Yuma Sector Chief Patrol Agent Chris T. Clem tweeted photos from a failed human smuggling attempt near Quartzite, Arizona, last week. Agents interdicted the smuggler’s vehicle and found six migrants inside the vehicle.
During a search of the vehicle, the agents found a loaded pistol in the center console, the chief reported.
The Blythe Station Border Patrol agents arrested the migrants and the alleged human smuggler and transported them to the station for processing.
The introduction of firearms into the human smuggling industry increases the danger for Border Patrol agents and the smugglers themselves.
In the neighboring Tucson Sector, Chief Patrol Agent John R. Modlin reported the arrest of a U.S. citizen driver with a group of five migrants. A search of that vehicle led to the discovery of a loaded pistol and a small quantity of methamphetamine and fentanyl pills, Breitbart Texas reported.
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