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Update on truck found with fake IID logo

IMPERIAL, Calif. (KYMA, KECY) - We follow up on a story about a truck that was found with a fake Imperial Irrigation District (IID) logo, leading to the arrest of four people.

"Agents were patrolling the area and we had the remote video surveillance operators checking the area and they noticed some activity coming across the boundary fence," said David Kim with the El Centro Border Patrol sector.

Border [Patrol says six undocumented immigrants crossed the border illegally. Then they crossed the All-American Canal using a raft. 

"Three individuals exited that raft and stayed on the North Canal Bank...while three went back south into Mexico and from that point on a white truck approached the area...the three individuals got into the truck," said Kim.

Border Patrol says after the truck left the area they made their way to Highway 111 where agents arrested them.

"Well, the principal in the incident was a U.S. citizen 30-year-old male and then the three smuggled foreign nationals: One was from Mexico 30-year-old male...there was a 41-year-old female Chinese national and a 61-year-old Chinese national also a female," said Kim.

The IID says Border Patrol quickly called them to informed that they had stopped a suspicion I.I.D truck. 

"They asked us to run the license plates, which it was a California exempt license plate. We ran it and it did come back to an IID vehicle, but it was a vehicle out of our Coachella area," said Mike Beltran, IID Claims and Investigation Supervisor.

The plate itself was also fake and the logo as well.

"Try tried to mimic IID's logo it was a magnetic decal they attached to the side of the truck," said Beltran.

Border Patrol says each individual paid $10,000 to be smuggled into the U.S.

The original post from Border Patrol El Centro Sector can be found here.

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