Border Patrol officials say agents in the Yuma area rescued a Honduran migrant from the Colorado River.
Agents from the Yuma Sector assigned to the river spotted the man Tuesday evening struggling to stay afloat.
They say the 38-year-old jumped into the water to evade capture after entering the U.S. illegally.
Agents reached him by boat and pulled him to safety.
He is now being held for immigration processing.
Also on Tuesday, Yuma Sector agents at a checkpoint south of Quartzsite arrested two men for trying to smuggle 30 pounds of methamphetamine in their vehicle.
The two suspects, U.S. citizens, were found with 30 packages of meth hidden in their car's panels and air conditioning unit.
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They were arrested for narcotics smuggling.
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