*Unconfirmed Reports of three killed*

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1:02 a.m. June 14, 2008
CAMPO – At least three people were hit by gunfire Friday night on the Mexican side of the border near Campo, authorities said.

The California Highway Patrol said several shooting victims came across the border.


The shootings occurred some time after 10 p.m.

A Heartland fire dispatcher said he knew of three victims, but that the Border Patrol had said there were more. The dispatcher said he did not know if anyone was killed. Border Patrol officials were unavailable to comment on what occurred.

Ambulances were sent to state Route 94, also known as Campo Road, near the Mexican border west of Campo, at 10:20 p.m. Mercy Air took one person to Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego, the Heartland fire dispatcher said.

In an e-mail from the San Diego Minutemen founder Jeff Schwilk, an associate claimed Minutemen were in the area when shooting broke out among Mexicans on their side of the border, and at least three people were dead.

In Chula Vista, several residents called police after 11 p.m. to complain about cars speeding through town. Police stopped one driver, who turned out to be a Border Patrol agent in an unmarked car heading toward the Campo scene from the Border Patrol's Chula Vista office.

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SAN DIEGO (AP) ---- U.S. Border Patrol agents seized 680 pounds of marijuana from a sport utility vehicle near the border town of Campo.

A Border Patrol spokesman said agents spotted a shredded tire on the Isuzu Trooper and began following it Thursday morning on state Route 94 when the driver made a sudden turn toward a dirt road. The driver parked the car near the border.

The spokesman said agents pulled up to the vehicle and saw three men unloading bundles. When the men spotted the agents they dropped the packages and ran to Mexico.