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Border jumping suspects taken down

RCMP make Hwy. 99 arrest

A pair of alleged border jumpers was arrested at gunpoint on the Richmond end of the Oak Street Bridge Tuesday afternoon.

The men were caught with several bags of drugs inside their blue car, according to the RCMP.

Deas Island RCMP Traffic Services officers, with guns drawn, took down the pair shortly after 2 p.m., after being alerted to a "suspicious activity" at the border.

The men, believed to be Canadian, were arrested in a procedure where "there's really not much that a person could do but comply," according to the RCMP.

The two spent the night in jail Tuesday, while the "unknown substance" in their bags was being tested.