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Border jumper into Canada deported

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 10 Jan, 2025 01:59 PM
  • Border jumper into Canada deported

An American man who blew through the border in a stolen vehicle to get into Canada has been deported.

U-S Customs and Border Protection says the 33-year-old man was handed back to American authorities in Tacoma, Washington.

The man was arrested in Surrey over the weekend.

U-S authorities did not release the motive for the man's escape across the border, other than the fact that he was wanted on a warrant in King County in Washington state.

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