Border Patrol, Pharr Police arrest 71 immigrants at stash house

Posted: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 3:20 pm
Gail Burkhardt

Border Patrol agents and Pharr Police officers arrested 71 illegal immigrants at a stash house about 2 p.m. this afternoon.

The immigrants at the house on the 500 block of Albatross in Pharr were from various countries including Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic and Mexico, said Border Patrol Spokesman Henry Mendiola.

Law enforcement officials received permission to search a house, Mendiola said.

Mendiola said he did not yet have information on the condition of the stash house, but noted that one woman was taken to the hospital complaining of abdominal pains.

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