Day/date: February 3, 1987

                                 FIELD INCIDENT REPORT

Log number: 87-9
Date/time of incident: 2/2, 8:30 am     Date/time received: 2/3, noon
Park: Big Bend                          Location:  River Road
Reported by: Earl Hill, LES/SWRO        Phone(s): 476-6371
Received by: Bill Halainen, RAD/WASO    Phone(s): 343-4874
Follow up: Marty Ott, CR/BIBE           Phone(s):

Summary:
Castolon Area Ranger Kathy Hambly observed a motor home stuck on the River
Road leading to Rio Grande Village. She went to the assistance of the
the couple driving it, and helped them get unstuck. Her suspicions as to
their activities in the area were aroused, however, so she took their names
and identifying information. After passing this information on to Border
Patrol, she went back to the scene and traced the vehicle's tracks back to the
border, where she found that it intersected with three sets of horse tracks.
Since its a known practice of drug dealers in the area to rendezvous in such a
fashion, she then passed this on to Border Patrol, thereby giving them enough
probable cause to stop the vehicle about 50 miles north of the park at 11 a.m.
The vehicle was searched, and a little over 663 pounds of cocaine was found
within. The couple was arrested, the vehicle impounded, and the drugs taken
into custody by DEA. DBA appraised the street value of the latter as about
$148.5 million. The female was originally from Boquillas, Mexico, and is part
of a family well-known locally for drug dealing.

Persons involved:
Name                                 Address             DOB or age
Hispanic male                      Cuba
Mexican female                     Stockton, Texas