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Lynden, Wash. – Yesterday, while on patrol on a cool summer night an agent from the Lynden Border Patrol Station showed exactly how to get the job done. The Lynden Border Patrol agent intercepted and disrupted yet another attempt to bring drugs across the border.

While traveling east on Boundary Road, paralleling Zero Avenue on the Canadian side of the border the agent observed a slight movement in the ditch separating the two countries. The location is notorious for drug smuggling and drugs are frequently intercepted and seized in the area. The agent illuminated the spot where he saw movement and observed a man wearing all black trying to avoid detection. Trying to avoid capture, the subject ran back across the border and into a large field in on the Canada side.

The alert Border Patrol agent noticed that the man in black left a big, black, bulky bag laying in the middle of the road in Canada. This bag was not unlike those that have been found in the past, filled with a green leafy substance, probably BC Bud, a very potent type of marijuana grown in British Columbia, Canada. The agent contacted Border Patrol dispatch and requested the Royal Canadian Mounted Police respond to the area. At the scene, RCMP recovered the black bag lying in the road and discovered a twin bag in the ditch on the other side of the road.

RCMP requested a K-9 unit from the Abbottsford, British Columbia Police Department which subsequently tracked, then found one individual dressed in black hiding in the nearby field.

Lynden Border Patrol interpreted for RCMP due to the fact that the suspect they discovered hiding spoke only Spanish. The suspect had no identification and claimed to be a citizen of Honduras, legally residing in Canada. The person in custody claimed that he was with two other individuals, one from Mexico, and the other from Guatemala. He stated that they were waiting to load the bags into a truck that would flash its headlights when it arrived for pick up. RCMP confirmed that the duffel bags contained several vacuum sealed packages with a green-leafy substance they believed to be B.C. Bud. RCMP gave an approximate weight of fifty to sixty pounds per bag. The other two individuals have not yet been located, and no other bags were found on either side of the border. The RCMP turned over the person in their custody to Immigration Canada for further investigation.

The cooperative effort of law enforcement on both sides of the U.S./Canadian border clearly demonstrates the ability and desire to strengthen our relationship and our borders with Canada.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.