The protesters charged for allegedly blocking a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle in Whitefish last year are hammering out a plea deal with prosecutors. Leanette Galaz, Colton Little and Aggie Putnam were originally scheduled for an omnibus in Whitefish Municipal Court on Jan.

In the first eight days of the operation, Border Patrol arrested 250 people, with less than 10% having criminal backgrounds.

A Sony digital camera. A head-mounted GoPro. Two pairs of Ray-Ban sunglasses. A cell phone-wielding plainclothes videographer. Border Patrol officials used all four — plus more than 20 agency body cameras — to record their arrests and the protesters who confronted them on Dec.

A drug smuggler arrested during Operation Pick-Off was sentenced to eight months in prison Thursday. The government deported Miguel Casas Quevedo, 48, of Ciudad

So far in Fiscal Year 2026, the Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector is leading the nation in arrests and encounters of migrants on the Southwest border although total encounters are at

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Border Patrol Spokane Sector, working with Montana Highway Patrol and other law enforcement agencies, arrested more than 50 people during a multi-agency interdiction and enforcement operation along the Interstate 90 ...