Border Patrol feature photos
So the Temecula Valley News put me in a car on several occasions with officers from the local Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Patrol office and allowed me to photograph some stops.
This car was stopped by the CHP after blowing thru the infamous Temecula Immigration checkpoint at 90 plus mph. We, as in myself and Agent Visconti, had just walked out of the checkpoint offices when a CHP unit pulled up and told us that they were requesting backup on a stop at 79S and the I15 - less than a mile away. When we came up on scene, CHP had the driver out, and Agent Visconti and his dog went to the car, where the dog hit upon the fact that someone was in the backseat with a blanket over them - that individual was removed and found to be a teenage boy. When the dog was exiting the vehicle however, he alerted to the trunk. Covering the trunk, guns drawn, all three of us on scene were a bit shocked to find four more people in the trunk, on a day when temps were approaching 95 degrees. All were taken into custody.
Our first "stop" of the day...
Agents stop'd this driver in a resedential area near Pechanga. Upon pulling over the car, she claimed to be house hunting. Further interrogation on scene led her to reveal that she was smuggling in the two passengers in the rear seat, and she claimed to have done this over 30 times. All three were taken into custody, and the car impounded.
My thanks to the Temecula office of the Border Patrol.
This car was stopped by the CHP after blowing thru the infamous Temecula Immigration checkpoint at 90 plus mph. We, as in myself and Agent Visconti, had just walked out of the checkpoint offices when a CHP unit pulled up and told us that they were requesting backup on a stop at 79S and the I15 - less than a mile away. When we came up on scene, CHP had the driver out, and Agent Visconti and his dog went to the car, where the dog hit upon the fact that someone was in the backseat with a blanket over them - that individual was removed and found to be a teenage boy. When the dog was exiting the vehicle however, he alerted to the trunk. Covering the trunk, guns drawn, all three of us on scene were a bit shocked to find four more people in the trunk, on a day when temps were approaching 95 degrees. All were taken into custody.
Our first "stop" of the day...
Agents stop'd this driver in a resedential area near Pechanga. Upon pulling over the car, she claimed to be house hunting. Further interrogation on scene led her to reveal that she was smuggling in the two passengers in the rear seat, and she claimed to have done this over 30 times. All three were taken into custody, and the car impounded.
My thanks to the Temecula office of the Border Patrol.
posted by TouchpointLA at 11:44 AM
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