Smugglers improvise ramp to drive over border fence
April 08, 2011 12:08 AM
BY CHRIS McDANIEL - SUN STAFF WRITER



Half a million dollars worth of marijuana was seized from smugglers who used a portable truck ramp to illegally enter the U.S. from Mexico early Thursday morning.

Border Patrol agents assigned to Yuma Station were patrolling near the southern most end of Foothills Boulevard and the international boundary on the Barry M. Goldwater Range just before dawn when they encountered a 2001 Jeep Cherokee driving northbound from the fence at a high rate of speed.

“The hours of darkness are always more busy than during the daylight,â€