CBP official stops man walking west at port of entry constantly’adjusting his trousers and pulling down clothing’
A U. S. Customs and Border Protection agent watching the eastbound pedestrian paths of the San Luis, Arizona, port of entry observed a gentleman walking towards Mexico who suddenly stopped and “appeared to be adjusting his trousers, ” according to records filed Monday in federal court.
As the man approached the CBP commander, he patted the front of his trousers and pulled his shirt as far as it would come. Records show the agent told him to halt and asked if he had something to consider before leaving the United States; the personal later identified as Bryant Mitchell Pilgrim responded, “ I don’t have anything illegal on me. ”
Records present Pilgrim then turned round and began walking away from the border; the CBP officer called for storage and told the man to halt and place his arms against a chain-link border.
Borders officials took Pilgrim into captivity and searched him at the port of entry. The April 19 seek yielded more than 100 rounds of 9mm weapons in his clothes and a cheap taco case, according to a legal complaint filed in U. S. District Court for the District of Arizona.
Homeland Security Investigation officials later attempted to question Pilgrim and seek his cellphone, but they noticed the unit had been locked and “remote wiped, ” erasing all files.
A few hours afterwards on April 19, CBP officials documented the passage from Mexico of a man identified as Pilgrim’s brother. They told him of his brother’s imprisonment and asked if he knew about the weapons, documents show.
The nephew denied any information or presence and was allowed to return to re-enter the U. S. Pilgrim himself declined to talk to researchers. He is being held on charges of contraband items from the United States, a national offense punishable with up to 10 years in prison.
