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CBP finds immigrants in car trunk

Posted at 12:22 PM, Sep 01, 2017
and last updated 2017-09-01 21:35:54-04

U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested two men on the State Route 90 checkpoint Thursday night on suspicion of smuggling two Mexican men into the U.S. inside a car trunk.

At the checkpoint, north of Whetsone, Ariz., agents stopped a 2008 Infiniti coupe. A K9 alerted the agents to two men hiding inside the trunk.

Agents arrested the 24-year-old driver and 26-year-old passenger, who are both from Tucson. The men int he trunk were processed for immigration violations.