Illegal Immigrant Arrested in Laredo (Laredo Sun)

Illegal Immigrant Arrested in Laredo
Mario Martínez Cruz, tried to fool Customs and Border Protection inspectors.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
By: LAREDO SUN

LAREDO, Tx.- A man from Michoacan ran as fast as he could in his intention to cross into the United States but authorities were faster than he was.

Mario Martínez Cruz, 18, tried to fool Customs and Border Protection inspectors on the Gateway to the Americas international bridge.

According to reports, the subject took advantage when officers were not looking and began to run as fast as he could, he ran betweeen cars and jumped a fence but it was not enough.

Federal inspectors caught the subject and sent him to secondary. It was then that officials detected that Martínez Cruz had been deported on December 9th of 2009 from the United States.

Martínez Cruz identified himself as Ricardo Camarena from Houston, Tx.