Tucson Standard

Agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and officers with the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) arrested two migrants and a citizen driver in Arizona early this month. CBP Chief Agent of the Tucson Sector John Modlin shared this information in a post on X on June 13.

According to Modlin, the previously-removed migrant was wanted on an extraditable warrant from New Jersey for sexual assault charges. That individual, along with another migrant and a U.S. citizen who was driving, were in a stolen vehicle that crashed as they fled a DPS stop.

The Tucson sector covers much of Arizona, from the border of New Mexico to Yuma County’s border, spanning approximately 262 border miles. There are approximately 3,700 agents in the nine stations within the sector. Stations are located in Why, Casa Grande, Douglas, Bisbee, Nogales, Sonoita, Tucson, Three Points, and Wilcox, Arizona, according to the CBP’s webpage focused on the sector. The sector was originally known as the Nogales Sector and was created on July 1, 1924. Two years later, the sector headquarters moved to Tucson.

Screenshot of John R. Modlin's June 13 post on X | X

U.S. Border Patrol is a federal law enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security responsible for safeguarding the nation's borders and preventing illegal entry of people and contraband. Established in 1924, it operates in 328 ports of entry and protects 7,000 miles of land borders and 95,000 miles of maritime borders.