Woman headed to prison for pepper-spraying Border Patrol agent
Immigration,Border Patrol,Crime,Arizona,US-Mexico Border,Mexico
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A judge in Arizona has sentenced a woman from Mexico to two years in prison after she pleaded guilty to assaulting a federal agent with a dangerous weapon.
The charge stems from an April 16 incident in Nogales, Ariz., in which a U.S. Border Patrol agent, only identified as E.B., saw the woman come over the border wall and drove up to the scene.
The woman, later identified as Sandra Meza Casillas, 51, attempted to go unnoticed by lying flat on her stomach on a road that runs parallel to the international barrier...
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