Thread: AZ-Border Patrol rescues 2 in Cochise County

Border Patrol rescues 2 in Cochise County
By Brady McCombs
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 09.02.2008
U.S. Border Patrol agents assisted in a pair of rescues Sunday and Monday; one of a 72-year-old U.S. citizen near Naco, and the other of a 9-year-old Mexican girl.
The rescue of the elderly man from Bisbee occurred late Sunday night after his family members reported to Cochise County Sheriff’s Department that he was missing, said Rob Daniels, Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman. Cochise County called the Border Patrol, which launched a search for the man.
The family alerted authorities that the man was diabetic, Daniels said. He had gone out earlier in the day with a metal detector, he said. He was last seen east of the overpass at Bisbee Junction.
The Border Patrol sent out agents on foot and on ATV and found the man shortly after close to the international line on Border Road, east of Naco, Daniels said. The man was lost, tired and cold but was in good condition and didn’t require medical attention. Authorities returned him to his family.
The rescue of the young Mexican girl took place early Sunday morning near Willcox. At 10 p.m., Border Patrol agents tried to stop a vehicle carrying illegal immigrants on Kansas Settlement Road south of Willcox, Daniels said. The occupants bailed and agents caught some of the group.
They took them back to the Willcox Border Patrol station where a woman told agents that her 9-year-old daughter was missing, Daniels said. Agents got a description of the girl and launched a search with agents and a Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine helicopter.
At about 12:30 a.m. Sunday, agents found the girl, her aunt and two others about one mile east of where the bailout occurred, Daniels said. They reunited the girl with her mother at the Border Patrol station.
The mother, 32, the aunt, 34, and the daughter, all of Tlaxcala, Mexico, chose to take a flight to Mexico City offered under the Interior Repatriation Program, Daniels said.




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Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:16 pm BORDER PATROL RESCUED ELDERLY CITIZEN

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C.B.P. News Release

Border Patrol Rescues Elderly Citizen in Tucson

(Tuesday, September 02, 2008)

Tucson, Ariz. - Agents rescued a 72-year-old man, just north of the border near Naco.

On Sunday night at approximately 10 p.m., the Naco Border Patrol Station received a call from the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office about a missing elderly Bisbee man. CCSO also indicated that the man was a diabetic. CCSO received the call from a concerned family member after the man did not return home after an outing.

Border Patrol agents responded and began a search and rescue operation for the man, who by this time was in need of food as well as medication. With the use of ground agents and ATV units the man was found just a few miles north of the border. The man appeared to be in good condition. Border Patrol agents then transported him to CCSO to be reunited with his family.

Due to strong communication ties between the Border Patrol and local law enforcement, situations like this can be resolved safely and quickly for all involved.

There have been 416 rescues in the Tucson Sector from October 1, 2007 to August 31, 2008.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.

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