Handcuffed Mexican kids steal U.S. border agent car

Handcuffed Mexican kids steal U.S. border agent car
Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:46pm EDT

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Three Mexican minors
detained in California on suspicion of smuggling drugs
stole a U.S. Border Patrol car while still wearing
handcuffs and drove it back across the border to
Mexico.

Police in the Mexican border city of Mexicali said on
Tuesday the three boys had been driving a pick-up
truck on a remote Californian highway when a Border
Patrol agent stopped them.

Suspicious they were carrying marijuana, he handcuffed
them and put them in his patrol car while he searched
their truck.

"As the agent was doing his search, he left the vehicle
running and the keys in the ignition, so one of the lads,
still wearing handcuffs, grabbed the steering wheel and
they headed back to Mexico," a police spokesman said.

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