Border Patrol rescues 6 undocumented immigrants (KGUN-AZ)

Border Patrol rescues 6 undocumented immigrants
Posted: Jul 19, 2010 10:24 PM
Reporter: Sheryl Kornman

TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - Border Patrol agents rescued six people over the weekend who were found in the southern Arizona desert "in distress," according to a media release from the federal agency's Tucson Sector.

Four individuals were found in the Tucson Station area after a "citizen" reported seeing possible illegal aliens in distress. One was taken to a hospital. The others were medically evaluated and then taken to the Border Patrol's processing center in Tucson.

Also, one illegal immigrant found in the desert in the Nogales area was taken to a hospital for treatment. And agents working out of the Sonoita Station took an illegal immigrant found in the Huachuca Mountains to a hospital for treatment, and then to the Nogales Station for processing.

More than 200 of the Tucson Sector's agents are also trained as EMTs, according to the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector communications staff.

Agents also took into custody over the weekend a man who had five felony warrants out of North Carolina for his arrest on charges including rape and larceny. He was processed by Border Patrol and transferred to the U.S. Marshal's Office for extradition to North Carolina. The man was identified as a suspect on the run using the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System.