Desert Survivor Says He, Others Smuggled Drugs
From Times Wire Reports
A Mexican man who survived a desert trek that killed three others said all four were drug smugglers. But the Border Patrol has not been able to substantiate the statement made by Francisco Espinoza Sanez, an official said.
Three Latino men were found dead Monday in the desert inside the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, four miles north of the Mexican border and about 120 miles southwest of Tucson.
Investigators believe the men died from intense heat and lack of water.
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