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FALFURRIAS - Brooks County Sheriff’s Office contacted the Falfurrias Border Patrol Station regarding four lost subjects in need of assistance. The caller, a Salvadoran male, stated he was traveling with two juveniles, one of them unaccompanied. Shortly after, agents were able to locate the caller and four additional lost migrants he was traveling with. The five subjects were evaluated by the station’s medical staff and were found to be in good health.

One hour later, the Falfurrias Border Patrol Station received a 9-1-1 phone call from a Salvadoran national claiming he was abandoned by a brush guide. The migrant was traveling with six others who became lost in the ranch lands of Brooks County, Texas, as they attempted to circumvent the Border Patrol checkpoint. Brooks County dispatchers triangulated his call and were able to provide coordinates to his general location. Agents located the group and preliminary health assessments determined that multiple subjects required medical assistance due to extreme dehydration.

Four of the migrants were so exhausted, they were carried out of the brush by agents. Agents successfully transported the migrants to a nearby road where EMS provided medical attention and transported them to the nearest hospital.

Of the five migrants transported to the hospital, two were admitted.