A bit more information from a story at 9:01 p.m.:
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“The incident occurred shortly before 12pm. Authorities say that the vehicle had attempted to cross the US border into Canada using Rainbow Bridge. When a border patrol officer directed the car into a secondary lane for searching, it sped up, went airborne over an 8-foot fence, crashed, caught on fire and then exploded.”
The procedure at the land crossings at the US/Canadian border is that your license plate number gets entered into the CBP computer as the travellers are driving towards the booth. The officer takes your paperwork/passport/Nexus card immediately upon getting to their booth, so the CBP officer had the passports of the travellers in his hand. They don’t return them until they release you into the country. If you’re pulled over for a secondary inspection, they keep your paperwork and a runner takes it into the next inspection area. Once you’re cleared from either the primary or secondary inspection areas, they return your papers to you.
When the officer entered the individual ID’s into his computer, either their behaviour or something on his screen prompted him to send them to secondary, according to the article above. It was at this direction that the travellers decided to make a run for I-don’t-know-where. It’s a very confined area where this happened and there really isn’t anywhere to go.
The CPB computers have the vehicle and travellers’ information and absolutely know who they are. If the explosion was close enough to the primary inspection booth, the blast energy could have dislodged the paperwork from the CBP officer’s hands and fallen to the ground, where they were reported to have been found. That the travellers decided to try to get away leads to its own conclusion. Still digging, but the official narrative isn’t holding up.
I should have added that this means the incident occurred on the Canadian side of the border, since that’s where the Customs processing of travellers into Canada takes place. There is no pre-clearance station in the US for land crossings.
Excellent information, thank you. Definitely something not right with whoever was in the vehicle.
MarQ
Wow what a great find Linda,great work!!
My guess is that info is now well buried if not deleted from the computer. What you found puts an entirely new light on the story as well. It goes to support the theory that a passport could have been found. At least we are pretty sure the passport exists which is super key.
The passport is a key to unraveling the story. Especially if the passport looks funny.
This is why there is FR and the rest of the web. We lead the pack more often than not.
thanx for more details LL & rodguy911
MarQ