Hastert Helicopter Pressed Into Service
House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., headed out to the Arizona desert last weekend in an effort to score some political points for Republicans by highlighting problems with illegal immigration. But when a Border Patrol agent in the remote region found evidence of a recent border crossing and radioed for backup, the helicopters ferrying Hastert's delegation were pressed into service, the Washington Times reports today. Agents quickly clambered aboard the four UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters and ultimately seized more than 200 pounds of marijuana. The smugglers of the dope got away, though.
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