Attacks on local border agents drop

BY JAMES GILBERT, SUN STAFF WRITER

December 19, 2007 - 8:18PM

While attacks against Border Patrol agents are increasing elsewhere on the border, they're actually decreasing in the Yuma area, according to the patrol.

Eric Anderson, a spokesman for the patrol's Yuma sector, said the drop in attacks on Yuma-area agents is an indication the Border Patrol has stepped up security along the U.S.-Mexican border.

"There is less activity occurring now as well due to better enforcement," Anderson said. "The equipment and manpower we have received has made it harder for people to cross here, so they aren't trying it here as often. They are going somewhere else."