Thread: Yuma border agents find drugs dropped from ultralight

Yuma border agents find drugs dropped from ultralight, arrest suspected smuggler

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First Posted: May 09, 2011 - 8:21 pm
Last Updated: May 09, 2011 - 8:22 pm

YUMA, Ariz. ” Border agents in southwestern Arizona found 278 pounds of marijuana they believe were dropped from an ultralight aircraft flown by a drug smuggler.

Border Patrol Agent Robert Lowry said Monday that the U.S. Air and Marine Operations Center in Riverside, Calif. notified Yuma agents of a possible ultralight incursion Friday.

Some agents on the ground spotted an ultralight in the air, but by the time an agency helicopter got there it was back in Mexico.

Soon after that, agents found 10 bundles of marijuana on the ground and noticed a pickup truck nearby.

They pulled the truck over, and the driver was a 30-year-old Yuma man who had numerous previous narcotics charges. In his nearby home, investigators found eight bundles of marijuana weighing 261 pounds and arrested him.

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