Border Sheriff Nabs Smugglers With Pop-Up Highway Checkpoints

Kinney County Sheriff's Deputy Chris Coplan arrests two illegal aliens after the stolen truck they were traveling in sped through a checkpoint and onto a ranch near Brackettville, Texas, on Aug. 16, 2021. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

BRACKETTVILLE, Texas—Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe joked that his first pop-up driver’s license checkpoint on a rural road would be “boring.”

Coe set up on a road that provides smugglers a way around a Border Patrol checkpoint that’s situated between the border and San Antonio.