Seven border crossers arrested in Imperial Beach

By Kristina Davis, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 2:07 p.m.

IMPERIAL BEACH — Seven Mexicans who were smuggled into the country via boat were arrested early Thursday in Imperial Beach, authorities said.

A sheriff’s deputy responded to a report about 3 a.m. that a group of people were hiding near an apartment complex on Seacoast Drive, according to the U.S. Border Patrol. The deputy found six men and a woman in wet clothing and called Border Patrol.

Agents discovered an overturned 1978 Bayliner boat in the surf near Imperial Beach Boulevard shortly after. The boat was seized for evidence and the illegal immigrants detained by Border Patrol.

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