SAN DIEGO — U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a 16-year-old boy after he attempted to smuggle nearly 27 pounds of methamphetamine into the United States last Saturday. This incident comes as Border Patrol’s San Diego Sector closes on a new record for narcotic seizures.

On Aug. 30, at 10:40 p.m., surveillance camera operators witnessed a suspicious person in a remote area, approximately one mile east of the San Ysidro Port of Entry and a few hundred yards north of the U.S.-Mexico border, carrying two dark duffel bags, according to Customs and Border Protection.

When Border Patrol agents responded to the area, they came across a 16-year-old boy who told them an “unlikely story” of hiking in the area, and the two duffel bags previously seen by operators were missing, CBP said. A Border Pat

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