Fake UPS van fails to make human delivery

Security

Thursday, May 24, 2012

U.S. Border Patrol agents on Wednesday arrested a 21-year-old man for attempting to smuggle illegal aliens across the border near Niland, Calif., using a replica UPS delivery van, Customs and Border Patrol announced. Agents spotted the UPS van attempting to avoid a checkpoint on Highway 111 and stopped the vehicle, which had 13 undocumented passengers from Mexico hiding inside. An investigation determined that the vehicle was not a legitimate UPS van. The van was impounded an...

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