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YUMA, AZ -- Officials say U.S. Border Patrol agents interrupted a drug smuggling attempt and seized over 900 pounds of marijuana in southern Arizona Friday morning.

Border Patrol officials say that around 1:30 a.m. agents assigned to the Yuma sector saw a Ford Bronco drive up to the primary border fence several miles east of the San Luis, Arizona Port of Entry.

The vehicle stopped near the fence where agents saw several people who had been waiting atop the fence load large bundles into the vehicle.

Officials say the driver then sped away from the border, trying to blend in with local traffic.

Agents spotted the Bronco and tried to stop the driver, who then turned around and headed back toward the border.

Agents used spikes to deflate the vehicle's tires, flattening three of them, and it eventually came to a stop just north of the border fence.

The driver and two occupants fled from the Bronco and climbed the fence into Mexico to avoid arrest, officials said.

Agents found 34 plastic-wrapped bundles of marijuana stuffed inside the vehicle, a total of 929 pounds estimated at a street value of $734,200.

The marijuana and Bronco were turned over to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Border Patrol officials say that during the month of December, Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents kept more than 5,000 pounds of marijuana from being delivered to American streets.

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