Cayote snarls: Video shows woman arrested for human smuggling lunging toward border patrol officers after she’s arrested at US Customs agents in Texas
- A video recorded by a U.S Border Patrol agent captured the shocking moment a woman arrested for smuggling migrants lunged at him and his partner
- The incident took place two weeks ago in Carrizo Springs, Texas, which falls under the jurisdiction of U.S. Border Patrol’s Del Rio Sector
- The suspect refused to put her feet back into the vehicle after she was handcuffed before the jumped at the agents
- At one point the woman tell the agents, ‘I don’t understand what you are telling me,’ as she tried to open the van’s door
A harrowing video shows the moment a woman lunges at a U.S. Border Patrol officer after she was detained for smuggling a group of migrants.
The shocking incident took place two weeks ago when the smuggler, whose name has not been released, was taken into custody in Carrizo Springs, Texas.
Video footage which was reportedly recorded by the agent assigned to the Del Rio Sector’s Carrizo Springs Station shows the suspect handcuffed and sitting on the edge of a van’s seat.
A spokesperson with the Del Rio Sector told DailyMail.com on Wednesday that they were unable to verify video, which was first posted online by AliBradleyTV.com on Monday.
Still image from a video recorded by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Carrizo Springs, Texas, two weeks ago captures the moment a woman arrested from smuggling migrants lunged at the agent
The migrant smuggler’s head is caught in between the doors after she was told by border agents to get her feet back in the van so that they could close the doors
On two occasions the woman is asked by two U.S. Border Patrol officers to ‘put your feet in’ so that they could shut the van’s doors close.
The woman fails to acknowledge their requests as she stares at the ground.
‘We’re going to close the door; you’re going to stay right there before we move,’ one of the agents said.
The woman subsequently lets out a loud noise and growls before she makes a move for the officer as he tried to close the door.
The woman continues to growl as she is told to ‘calm down’ while they attempt to keep the door closed. She is then able to step out of the vehicle while one of the border agents struggles to maintain the door as closed as possible to prevent her from perhaps leading them on a pursuit.
An agent then warns her, ‘Ma’am, we’re going to have to taser you and you’re not going to like that.’
The suspected smuggler stares at the ground as she was repeatedly told to get her feet in the van so that the border agents could transport her to a station
The woman was able to get her feet on the ground and told the U.S. Border Patrol agents, ‘I don’t understand what you are telling me,’ as they struggled to keep her inside the van.
The woman then tells the agents, ‘I don’t understand what you are telling me.’
As one of the agents tries to push her back into the van by placing his hand over her head, his partner suggests that they are going to have to transport her in another vehicle.
A CBP official told DailyMail.com that the Del Rio Sector prosecuted 856 human smuggling cases in fiscal year 2021, which spanned from October 1, 2020 to September 30, 2021.
Figures for fiscal year 2022 were requested by DailyMail.com before the story was published.
CBP reported 1,734,686 encounters with undocumented migrants who were stopped by U.S. Border Patrol agents for unlawful crossing of the United States-Mexico border between October 2020 and September 2021. But it appears fiscal year 2022 could eclipse the previous 12-month period’s totals as 518.360 interdictions have been registered from October 2021 to December 2021
A spokesperson with the Del Rio Sector told DailyMail.com on Wednesday that they were unable to verify video, which was first posted online by AliBradleyTV.com on Monday
U.S. Customs and Border Protections last monthly report for southwestern encounters – which was released in mid-January – showed that interdictions of migrants for unlawful crossing of the United States-Mexico border in fiscal year 2022 are on pace to surpass the totals for the previous 12-month period.
Data shows that 518,360 encounters were reported during the first three months of the new fiscal year compared with 1,734,686 interdictions registered throughout fiscal year 2021.
The Del Rio Sector posted 91,651 interdictions from October 2021 to December 2021, a 247 percent increase after registering 26,356 stops in the previous fiscal year’s first quarter.
‘Last year was a record setting year and we are currently far outpacing 2021’s numbers,’ the sector said in statement.