Smugglers improvise ramp to drive over border fence

April 07, 2011 6:38 PM
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 Foothills Boulevard and the international boundary just before dawn when they encountered a 2001 Jeep Cherokee driving northbound from the fence at a high rate of speed.

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