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 News from Around the Americas | September 2006 
Vietnam-era Marine Deserter Caught at Border
 Reuters
| | File photo shows U.S. Border Patrol agents along the border with Mexico in San Ysidro, California. (Fred Greaves/Reuters) |
U.S. border agents arrested a Marine deserter wanted for the last 40 years as he drove into California from Mexico, the Customs and Border Protection agency said on Friday.
Officers checking 63-year-old Victor Aguirre's car and papers at the busy San Ysidro border crossing near San Diego discovered there was a felony warrant issued by the Marines outstanding against him since 1966, during the Vietnam War.
Aguirre would likely be taken to Camp Pendleton, a Marine base north of San Diego, and be discharged without facing formal charges, the San Diego Union-Tribune quoted a Marine spokesman as saying. |
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