Border Patrol agents arrested five Honduran nationals and recovered more than 300 pounds of marijuana on the Tohono O'odham Nation on Sunday. The drugs were worth about $150,000. Agents on off-road motorcycles followed footprints near the village of Vaya Chin along a known smuggling route. The followed the prints to the Sierra Blanca Mountains and discovered 13 bales of marijuana. Agents continued searching and found four men and a juvenile nearby. All were Hondurans in the country illegally.

Border Patrol agents arrested five Honduran nationals and recovered more than 300 pounds of marijuana on the Tohono O'odham Nation on Sunday.

The drugs were worth about $150,000.

Agents on off-road motorcycles followed footprints near the village of Vaya Chin along a known smuggling route. The followed the prints to the Sierra Blanca Mountains and discovered 13 bales of marijuana. Agents continued searching and found four men and a juvenile nearby. All were Hondurans in the country illegally.


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