Blaine border patrol detects human smuggling

The U.S. Border Patrol caught three people after they allegedly illegally crossed the border into Blaine.

On the morning of January 31, agents detected three people attempting to cross without inspection, CBP spokesperson Jason Givens said in an email to The Northern Light. The three people were then picked up in a vehicle with a driver who was waiting on the U.S. side of the border. After a vehicle stop, a border patrol agent detained the individuals, all of whom were Romanian citizens without U.S. citizenship, Givens reported.

The driver was arrested for alleged human smuggling, Givens said. The vehicle was seized and the people caught were in the process of being deported, Givens said.