Hourly Update

Motorist flees Border Patrol, leaves 400 pounds of pot at crash scene

A motorist who was fleeing from a Border Patrol agent abandoned 400 pounds of marijuana after running a red light and crashing on the Interstate 10 frontage road at Orange Grove Road, officials said. The agent had tried to stop the driver of a blue Chevrolet Monte Carlo with Sonora plates on Interstate 10 around 7:40 p.m. Tuesday. But the vehicle drove off when the agent got out of his vehicle, said Sean King, a Border Patrol spokesman. The driver exited at Sunset Road, took the frontage road, crashed, ran from the car and got away, King said. Border Patrol agents found 21 bundles of marijuana in the back of the car, King said. The drugs are worth about $320,000, he said.