(Border Patrol makes arrest earlier this week)...It was near Ocotillo.

El Centro Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a man who had enterd the US illegally. He was taken into custody about 30 miles west of the Calexico Downtown Port of Entry. He was taken to a near-by Rally Point for immigration and criminal history screening. A records check revealed the man was a 33 year old Mexican National and he was a self-admitted member of the 18th Street Gang. The man had been convicted for 2nd degree robbery out of New York, and he had been convicted of entrering the US illegally. The man was being held in federal custody pending deportation back to Mexico.