U.S. Customs and Border Protection has released bodycam footage showing Air and Marine Operations agents intercepting a fishing boat off Newport Beach, California, on October 3. Fourteen Mexican nationals — eleven men, two women, and one child — were found aboard the vessel.
Transcript
HOOK: “Caught smuggling fourteen people ashore.”
NARR-1: “On October third, off Newport Beach, California, CBP Air and Marine Operations intercepted a fishing boat carrying fourteen Mexican nationals: eleven men, two women, and one child.”
ORIGINAL AUDIO: “Hey, no, no, no, no, no — hands up!” / “I got eight down here. All right, we’re gonna pick one out at a time. I’m gonna stay right here.”
NARR-2: “A shore-side smuggler, Jose Miguel Castro-Duenas, forty-four, was charged with alien smuggling and illegal reentry on October sixth. It was the third such interception in a month.”
Footage: U.S. Customs and Border Protection video by Ozzy Trevino / DVIDS (public domain).
