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A man was flown to University Medical Center with life-threatening injuries Wednesday after being thrown or jumping from a pickup truck carrying marijuana south of Tucson.

At about 9:30 a.m., a Border Patrol agent spotted a suspicious Nissan truck and tried to stop it on the Interstate 19 frontage road south of Arivaca Junction, said Mike Scioli, Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman.

The driver pulled over, but when the agent got out of his car, he sped away. The agent was driving around looking for the truck when he spotted a man with blood coming from his head lying in the road at the entrance to Sopori Elementary School, west of Interstate 19, Scioli said.

The agent called for a medical helicopter, which flew the man to the Tucson hospital.

Pima County sheriff's investigators said it appears the man was in the bed of the pickup and was either thrown from or jumped out and was run over, said Deputy Dawn Hanke, a sheriff's spokeswoman.

Sopori School was put on lockdown for an unknown period of time until authorities made sure the area was safe, Hanke said. It is the second time in two weeks the school has been placed on lockdown because of border-related activity.

On April 28, the school went on lockdown after agents tracked foot prints of drug smugglers to a nearby house.

About 20 minutes after the agent found the man in the street, the sheriff's department received a 911 call from a man who had flagged down a motorist and used the motorist's cell phone, she said. The man said he had been carjacked and the Nissan truck was his.

Investigators later learned he was the driver of the truck, Hanke said. He was arrested on suspicion of transportation for sale of marijuana and hit and run, she said.

Border Patrol agents found the abandoned truck about a half-mile north of the school with 10 bundles of marijuana inside, Scioli said.