Border Patrol Dismantles Smuggling Scout Bases in Arizona, Arrests Made Near Ajo

Border Patrol Dismantles Smuggling Scout Bases in Arizona, Arrests Made Near Ajo

PHOENIX — U.S. Border Patrol agents in Arizona’s Tucson Sector have ramped up efforts to dismantle cartel-operated scouting bases near the southern border in an effort to disrupt drug and human smuggling operations. In a recent mission just west of Ajo, Special Operations agents were airlifted by helicopter into rugged terrain where they located a scouting site and arrested two previously… Source

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