Thread: 2 admitted smugglers found dead at border

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/38797.php -Published: 01.16.2007

2 admitted smugglers found dead at border


DAVID L. TEIBEL and RYN GARGULINSKI
Tucson Citizen

Six men smuggling drugs over the Mexican border were accounted for by late Monday afternoon, but not all of them were alive, Santa Cruz County Sheriff Antonio Estrada said.
The bodies of two were found by the U.S. Border Patrol near the border, he said.
One of the men had been killed by a gunshot, the other by head trauma, Estrada said.
"He (the head trauma victim) could have been running and fell down the ravine and struck his head possibly trying to escape his assailants," Estrada said.
He said three people in camouflage toting assault rifles accosted the six men, vying for their backpacks full of marijuana.
Deputies said the incident began shortly before 10 a.m. Monday when a woman who lives just south of Tubac and about 20 miles north of the Mexican border, called to say four men had showed up on her doorstep, seeking help.
After admitting to backpacking pot into Arizona and being attacked by the border bandits, two of the men were airlifted to a Tucson hospital for treatment of gunshot wounds, and the other two were taken into Border Patrol custody, Estrada said.
That left two missing in the desert, and a search by deputies, members of the Santa Cruz County Metro Task Force, a multiagency anti-drug and anti-gang task force, and U.S. Border Patrol agents began.
No names have been released, and the two uninjured men will remain in custody, pending an investigation, said Border Patrol agent Jesus Rodriguez.
In the past month, Estrada said, the rugged area leading from the border to Tubac increasingly has been the scene of shootings, robberies and the smuggling of drugs and people.
"It's getting to be more and more dangerous," he said.

I guess we are suppose to feel sorry for these drug dealers. They are in a dangerous business that just happens to be against the law.


I have no sympathy!