DID SHERIFF'S DEPUTY CHASE TRUCK INTO MEXICO?

(Ed.'s Note: On its face, the posting above seems to indicate that a Cameron County Sheriff's Department deputy merely drove on the Veterans International Bridge – Los Tomates – trying to stop a truck from crossing into Mexico, but other reports indicate that the deputy might have gone across the Rio Grande in the pursuit and was forced to use the U-Turn before he got to the Mexican inspection station.

If he had continued onto the Matamoros side where he lacked jurisdiction, Mexican federal officers could have detained him for carrying a weapon, considered a serious no-no along the border and strictly enforced. Notice that the U-Turn on the map below indicates that it is across the river, and that the deputy had already gone into Mexican territory.

The deputy, according to a press release, "unknowingly" entered Mexican territory. Interesting. So he doesn't know where Cameron County – or the United States – begins or where it ends? 

The news from the department defy all reason, and one can only surmise that deputies pretty much take the law into their own hands lacking any direction from the top. What next, an international incident? Oh, by the way, the truck driver got away and the deputy had t wait in line to cross onto the U.S. side.)