San Diego Border Patrol Agents Find Missing 6-Year-Old From Texas

SAN DIEGO, CA — San Diego Border Patrol agents found a missing child and arrested a driver wanted for their alleged abduction, officials announced Monday.

Agents assigned to the Campo Station stopped a "suspicious" SUV traveling west on Interstate 8 near Buckman Springs Road around 9 a.m. Wednesday, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The SUV was driven by a 36-year-old woman, who had an adult female passenger and a 6-year-old girl in the vehicle with her.

After confirming the identities of the SUV's occupants, agents learned the driver had an active warrant issued by the Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office in Texas for interference with child custody involving the 6-year-old passenger.

Agents took the driver and child to a local Border Patrol station and contacted the U.S. Marshal Service, which took custody of the driver. The child was placed in the custody of Child Protective Services until she could be reunited with her family.

"This is yet another example of how agents' vigilance serves our communities and nation," San Diego Sector Chief Patrol Agent Patricia McGurk-Daniel said in a statement. "In this case, as they often do, agents went beyond their traditional border security duties to reunite a missing child with their family."