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Border Hopping Belizean Busted In Laredo
posted (October 13, 2010)
It's not the kind of thing that comes to our desk very often, but According to a newspaper report from Laredo Texas, yesterday, thirty three year old Belizean John Wain Lobo was arrested in Laredo when he tried to enter the U.S using false documents.

Lobo, who arrived at the Juarez-Lincoln International Bridge, tried to enter Texas illegally as a United States citizen bearing a birth certificate as John Sweeney.

Federal agents noticed that there was something strange about Lobo and that's when they got suspicious and sent him to secondary where he produced a U.S driver's license.

Shortly after, Customs and Border officials found that the documents presented by Lobo were fakes and that he had been deported to Belize in November 2006.

The Juarez-Lincoln International Bridge is one of the four vehicular international bridges in Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas that connect the United States and Mexico over the Rio Grande.

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