Truck full of immigrants plows through NAS security gate

Oct 9, 2006 05:05 PM

FLOUR BLUFF - A truck packed with 10 illegal immigrants pulled up to the Flour Bluff gate of Naval Air Station - Corpus Christi Saturday morning. They said they were lost.

When a security officer told them to pull over, they took off. The truck driver drove through the security gate and left the truck near a vacant housing area. All 10 inside bailed out and started running.

Security personnel quickly apprehended the seven men and three women. Base officials saud they don't think the illegals had any idea they were actually approaching a Navy base.

"I think what happens is some of these people get lost," Bob Torres of NAS-CC Public Affairs said. "It's when they hit a military gate like this, and they see people with firearms, they kinda panic."

It's believed there were only 10 inside the truck. Border Patrol agents took custody of those individuals.

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