News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Friday, May 11, 2007

Agent crashes during chase; suspect flees to Mexico

265 pounds of pot found in abandoned van
By Tammy Fonce-Olivas / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 05/11/2007 12:00:00 AM MDT

A U.S. Border Patrol agent suffered minor injuries Thursday during a car chase that ended with the seizure of 265 pounds of marijuana with an estimated street value of $212,000.

The chase ended on the Rio Grande levee near Paisano Drive and Executive Center Boulevard in West El Paso, Border Patrol spokesman Doug Mosier said.

Mosier said the driver of the van fled to Mexico on foot.

The chase began soon after 5:30 a.m. when Border Patrol agents spotted about seven people crossing illegally into the U.S. near the 2300 block of Paisano. Mosier said the agents reported that the people were carrying large bundles and were loading them into a blue Ford van with New Mexico license plates parked on Paisano. The group reportedly fled into Mexico after loading the van.

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