Man throws rocks at area BP agents

He claims to be part of caravans

Multiple U.S. Border Patrol agents and a Customs and Border Protection pilot in a helicopter had rocks thrown at them by a Honduran man in a burning tree near the Andrade, Calif., border crossing Friday night, according to a CBP press release.

The man claimed to have been part of one of the migrant caravans heading north to the U.S. from Central America through Mexico, the release said.

The statement did not specify how many agents on the ground were involved, but said none of them nor

the helicopter were struck by rocks.

The incident began about 5:45 p.m. Friday when Yuma sector agents found footprints on the ground from what they believed to be “from a subject who had illegally crossed from Mexico into the United States just east of the Andrade, Calif. port of entry.”

The town of Algodones, Baja California, is just south of the crossing.

The agents followed the tracks for about a mile after calling for a CBP Air and Marine helicopter, according to the statement, before finding a man near a tree, according to the statement.

The man climbed up into the tree, set it on fire and started throwing rocks at the agents and helicopter, the report said, before eventually coming down from the tree.

The Border Patrol agents identified the suspect, who wasn’t named in the report, as a 31-year-old Honduran man in the U.S. illegally. He was transported to the Yuma Central Processing Center, where he was found to have been deported from the U.S last June and to have several arrests on his record from Florida. The suspect is facing prosecution and removal hearings.