Border Patrol on October 6 detained 28-year-old Alec Ray Foss of Corpus Christi in Port Mansfield after he ran a speedboat with three men later found unlawfully present, a rifle, a pistol and four suspected pipe bombs. Two hailed from Ecuador and one from Guatemala, and he expected three thousand dollars each upon reaching Houston. Prosecutors had dropped a 2023 Zapata County case involving three others hidden in his vehicle, while ATF seized five firearms, 3500 rounds and bomb materials from his residence October 8; guilt on transport with life endangerment carries up to twenty years.