The U.S. Border Patrol Thursday warned anyone considering sneaking across the U.S.-Mexico line about several recent armed robberies and assaults of migrants in the Otay Mountain Wilderness area.
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The group told the agents the robbers threatened them with a rifle and a pistol and ordered them to pay $1,000 to be allowed to continue their journey. The migrants reported that when they could not produce the money, the thieves stole their cell phones, according to the Border Patrol. The detainees also told the officers that bandits were holding other victims captive just south of the international line.
On March 27, USBP officers patrolling in the southern San Diego-area wilderness preserve stopped 20 undocumented migrants, some of whom reported that they had been robbed a short time earlier by bandits armed with revolvers, according to the Border Patrol. Agents at the scene saw three suspects walking to the south and crossing into Mexico.
All the people detained during the three encounters were medically evaluated before being transported to a Border Patrol station for deportation processing.
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