U.S. Border Patrol

U.S. Border Patrol — page 1 — A Drug Bust In 2015 a big truck crosses into the United States from Mexico It stops at a checkpoint U S Border Patrol agents send the truck through a giant x ray machine The scans let the agents see what is inside The papers say the truck is carrying mattresses But the x ray shows something strange Uh oh Agents open up the truck They get a

U.S. Border Patrol — page 2 — The yellow bar over the truck shows agents what's inside Are there drugs Weapons IEEE 21

U.S. Border Patrol — page 3 — U S Border Patrol agents stop piles of drugs from coming into the

U.S. Border Patrol — page 4 — The truck is not filled with mattresses It is filled with almost 1 300 bags of drugs Together the bags of drugs weigh 15 tons 13 6 t That is the same as three Asian elephants Yikes The driver is a smuggler Agents arrest him They take the drugs away These brave agents kept illegal drugs out of the United States 7

3

PAGE 3 OF 29

›

The only kids' eBook subscription service that offers thousands of high-quality books from well known publishers like HarperCollins, National Geographic and others.

JavaScript Required

Whoops! We're sorry but Epic doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Check your web browser's settings to make sure it's enabled.