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Three Mexican fisherman are behind bars in after authorities found their boat on South Padre Island loaded with 1,311 pounds of marijuana.
U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents charged Luis Evangelio Aguilar-Ramirez, Antonio Guerrero-Saldaña and Francisco Montes de Oca Pablo on federal drug charges on Sunday.
The three men were spotted when their boat landed on a beach on the northern end of South Padre Island at 12:15 a.m. Sunday.
Court records show that three admitted to getting paid $1,000 dollars to take the marijuana from Playa Bagdad near Matamoros to the United States.
All three appeared before U.S. Magistrate Court Judge Felix Recio in Brownsville on Monday morning where they were denied bond until a Friday morning hearing.
Court records that Aguilar-Ramirez and Montes De Oca Pablo are from Matamoros while Guerrero-Saldaña is from Veracruz.
