Yuma Agents Find Two Deceased Individuals in Desert Tuesday
Release Date:
June 3, 2021
YUMA, Ariz. – Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents found two deceased individuals in separate locations in the desert southeast of the Foothills Tuesday.
An agent assigned to the Wellton station was tracking a group of migrants through the Barry M. Goldwater bombing range on Monday morning when he encountered a deceased male. The migrant, later identified as a 40-year-old Mexican national, was only a couple miles away from a rescue beacon. It is believed that the migrant had been deceased for approximately two weeks.
On Tuesday afternoon, Yuma Sector radio fielded a 911 call from C5, which is Mexico’s 911 equivalent, about a group in need of help south of the Yuma foothills. The caller stated that a female member of the group collapsed and was deceased.
Yuma Air Interdiction agents responded to the area and located the group, including the deceased female. Agents took the migrants into custody and the deceased female, a 20-year-old Guatemalan national, was turned over to the Yuma County Sheriff’s Office coroner. One of the members of the group was a 16-year-old guide from San Luis, Mexico.
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