Thread: Border Patrol spikes vehicle on I-8

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June 30, 2008
Border Patrol spikes vehicle on I-8
The Border Patrol has spiked a vehicle on eastbound Interstate 8 just west of Jacumba. The vehicle, with nine passengers, overturned and went over the side of the road after it drove over the spikes, according to the California Highway Patrol. No one was hurt. The driver of the vehicle is in custody.

-- Mark Arner
http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/news/b ... e_o_1.html

What happened to the passengers?

Ya are they illegals? No sure what this tells us.

Suspected immigrant smuggler arrested after spike-strip stop





UNION-TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM

3:43 p.m. June 30, 2008

JACUMBA – A driver suspected of transporting and smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States was arrested Monday after authorities used a spike strip to stop the vehicle.
Eleven people, including the driver, were detained about 1:30 p.m. after a 15-minute or so pursuit on eastbound Interstate 8 near Jacumba, said Jason Rodgers, a Border Patrol agent.


The vehicle was halted by the spike strips but its driver drove over the side of the road in trying to elude agents a second time, Rodgers said.
No one was hurt.

Everyone in the vehicle was detained. Rodgers said they were being held while agents determine their nationality and residency status.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metr ... chase.html

Well, that answers our questions doesn't it?