Publication Date:
Mon, 2011-02-07 23:24
The two males, aged 38 and 16, were spotted by a
US Customs and Border Protection helicopter crew late Wednesday as they walked
up Imperial Beach, a few miles south of San Diego, clutching the dive scooters,
the Border Patrol said in a news release. "That area where they were
apprehended is very close to the international border," San Diego sector
Border Patrol spokesman Michael Jimenez told Reuters.
"These devices can
be used to come north along the coastline and steer into shore... where they
can meet someone who will pick them up in a vehicle and further their entrance
into the United States," he added. Jimenez said agents arrested the two
men as they tried to hide in the sand, and took them to a Border Patrol station
for processing.
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