Thread: AZ: Patrol finds 2 entrants dead; large load of pot

Patrol finds 2 entrants dead; large load of pot
By Dale Quinn
arizona daily star

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 07.10.2007

Border Patrol agents found two more suspected illegal entrants dead in the Southern Arizona desert, one on Friday and another on Saturday, an official said Monday.
Elsewhere in the area on Saturday, agents seized more than 1,600 pounds of marijuana in 75 bundles. The drug smugglers had fled and no arrests were made, said Supervisory Agent Richard DeWitt, a Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman.
In the first of the deaths, an agent driving north Friday on Federal Route 19 near Topawa, about 60 miles southwest of Tucson, was flagged down by a person who said there was a woman in distress a short distance from the highway, DeWitt said.
The Border Patrol agent and a Tohono O'odham Police Department officer found the woman with no pulse, so the officer began CPR and called emergency rescuers, DeWitt said.
The rescuers could not revive the woman, age unknown, who was from Puebla, Mexico, he said.
On Saturday, members of the Border Patrol's search and rescue team, BORSTAR, were patrolling on foot when they came across a dead woman. She had no identification or personal belongings nearby, DeWitt said.
From Oct. 1, the beginning of the federal fiscal year, to the end of June, 116 illegal entrants have been found dead in the Arizona desert, DeWitt said. Roughly the same number of illegal entrants died in the desert during the same time period in the previous fiscal year, according to the Border Patrol.
In what DeWitt called a "significant" marijuana seizure, a Border Patrol agent driving on Federal Route 19 Saturday around Coldfield, about 60 miles southwest of Tucson, encountered a Chevy Suburban.
The agent attempted to follow the vehicle but it turned off the highway into a desert wash, DeWitt said. By the time the agent reached the SUV, which contained 1,647 pounds of marijuana, its occupants had fled.
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I apologize for being crass and for seeming to be insensitive...but I have to ask...does the U.S. get to ship the bodies back to Mexico for them to tend to...or are we stuck with illegally dead bodies here?

Oh, what the heck, since I probably already seem like a jerk, I have a proposal. If Mexico won't take their illegally dead back, then I feel the bodies should be shipped to Crawford, TX and buried on the Bush ranch.

In what DeWitt called a "significant" marijuana seizure,

I had to laugh at this statement. DeWitt consideres almost a TON (literally) of pot "significant"?

I'd say that is HUGE!

Zeezil, actually I agree w/ you on that one.

Seen them back COD freight!!!!!!!!

I had to laugh at the term used above - ILLEGALLY DEAD! Guess that makes me a ghoul?