Border Patrol: Smuggler armed with pipe bombs, semi-automatic rifle picked up migrants in Port Mansfield

McALLEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A smuggler transported three migrants from Port Mansfield to Corpus Christi last week in a “speedboat-style vessel,” according to a criminal complaint against him.

Along with the migrants, Alec Ray Foss, 28, of Corpus Christi had a pistol, a semi-automatic rifle and four pipe bombs in his boat…