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BumRushDaShow

(167,881 posts)
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 09:49 AM Jan 30

Border Patrol Employee Arrested in Minnesota After Being Found Passed Out in Car and 'Covered in Vomit'

Source: MEDIAite

Jan 29th, 2026, 10:34 pm


Minnesota state police arrested a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol employee in St. Paul upon finding the man slumped over his steering wheel while “covered in vomit.”

At 3:25 a.m. on Tuesday, a Minnesota state trooper found 31-year-old Alfredo Mancillas Jr. of Corpus Christi, Texas, passed out at the wheel in the Hamline-Midway neighborhood, according to charges filed by the St. Paul City Attorney’s Office. The story was first reported by Sahan Journal, a nonprofit news organization in Minnesota.

Police say Mancillas failed a field sobriety test and refused to take a breathalyzer test, after which he was arrested and booked at the Ramsey County jail. He has been charged with 3rd degree and 4th degree driving while impaired. Sahan Journal asked the Department of Homeland Security what role Mancillas serves in Border Patrol, but the department declined to answer.

“CBP stresses honor and integrity in every aspect of our mission, and the overwhelming majority of CBP employees and officers perform their duties with honor and distinction, working tirelessly every day to keep our country safe,” a DHS spokesperson told the Journal via email. The arrest comes amid a surge of federal immigration agents in the Twin Cities area.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/border-patrol-employee-arrested-in-minnesota-after-being-found-passed-out-in-car-and-covered-in-vomit/



Link to Sahan Journal article - Border Patrol employee found ‘covered in vomit’ in St. Paul, charged with drunk driving
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Border Patrol Employee Arrested in Minnesota After Being Found Passed Out in Car and 'Covered in Vomit' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jan 30 OP
That's a happenstance find bucolic_frolic Jan 30 #1
He's lucky they found him - he wouldn't have lasted long in this weather. Ocelot II Jan 30 #2
So true ... SomewhereInTheMiddle Feb 3 #28
They should put him out in the woods without winter clothing or fly him to rzemanfl Jan 30 #3
Wow I feel so much safer Blue Owl Jan 30 #4
I hear he's forming a new custody police force bucolic_frolic Jan 30 #5
The Collective Unconscious? MarineCombatEngineer Jan 30 #7
I bet he won't be fired Figarosmom Jan 30 #6
Was it Antifa's fault? louis-t Jan 30 #8
3... 2... 1... ck4829 Feb 2 #25
.... was found in St. Paul "slumped over in the driver's seat" around 3:30 a.m. near Allianz Field, riversedge Jan 30 #9
Unless he can prove the car drove itself then he should be charged with DUI Bengus81 Jan 30 #15
"All the best people" ... NOT!!!! FakeNoose Jan 30 #10
"upon finding the man slumped over his steering wheel while 'covered in vomit'." Ray Bruns Jan 30 #11
Well, at least if he's passed out covered in vomit, he's not likely to shoot someone. Vinca Jan 30 #12
Also, just an observation, but Mancillas is a Spanish name. I'm Irish. I don't think I'd join ICE if Scrivener7 Jan 30 #13
POC As Goons 2na fisherman Jan 30 #18
Cope harder; fucker... EarthFirst Jan 30 #14
Drunk on taxpayer money he's probably making more than he ever has. live love laugh Jan 30 #16
So murder is fine, just don't puke and pass out in your car...cops will be all over that. travelingthrulife Jan 30 #17
He'll use the Spinal Tap Defense BaronChocula Jan 30 #19
"The best people." Martin68 Jan 30 #20
Maybe he was sick with himself and filled with guilt and shame IcyPeas Jan 30 #21
One of Stephen Miller's finest Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 31 #22
Right? ck4829 Feb 2 #24
Gross. ck4829 Feb 2 #23
So they can arrest him for this CanonRay Feb 2 #26
Another "race traitor" Jilly_in_VA Feb 2 #27

bucolic_frolic

(54,695 posts)
1. That's a happenstance find
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 09:53 AM
Jan 30

Drinking while policing? Who's going to check? Absolutely can't happen.

28. So true ...
Tue Feb 3, 2026, 02:23 AM
Feb 3

I lived in rural Alaska (Bethel) for a year working at the PBS station. We did nightly news and in each broadcast we had the PC report ... the number of individuals that were taken into protective custody by the local police each night. These were mostly people that had been found either wandering or passed out in the snow and were taken to jail for the night to avoid them freezing to death by "morning" (sunrise could be as late as 11am in Dec-Jan at that latitude). They would pay a fine (around $70 I think) and be released.

Interestingly, the fine was less than the ~$100/night the two hotels in town charged. I always wondered how many PCs were actually travellers looking for the least expensive bed for the night. Not the most comfortable surely, but relatively cheap.

I'm from Texas originally - even lived in Corpus Christi for a while - and know that us Texans are not used to St. Paul levels of cold. If it was his first winter in that environment I could easily see him making a mistake/bad decision that could have easily cost him his life. And if driving under the influence was that decision it could have easily cost others their lives.

So, Lock Him Up!

rzemanfl

(31,289 posts)
3. They should put him out in the woods without winter clothing or fly him to
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 09:54 AM
Jan 30

California without ID and dump his ass there.

Figarosmom

(11,032 posts)
6. I bet he won't be fired
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 10:08 AM
Jan 30

How many alcoholics I wonder are ther in ICE. People have remarked on seeing them passing around flasks.

riversedge

(80,264 posts)
9. .... was found in St. Paul "slumped over in the driver's seat" around 3:30 a.m. near Allianz Field,
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 10:37 AM
Jan 30

Since police did not find him actually driving the car, I wonder if he will be convicted?
But also, I do not know what 3rd and 4th drunk driving means.



https://www.rawstory.com/border-patrol-2675060736/
..............Alfredo Mancillas Jr., 31, of Corpus Christi, Texas, was found in St. Paul "slumped over in the driver's seat" around 3:30 a.m. near Allianz Field, according to court documents reviewed by the Sahan Journal. The vehicle reeked of booze and was parked illegally in a no-parking zone.

Mancillas displayed telltale signs of intoxication, including "bloodshot and watery eyes" along with visible vomit all over him, the report said. After failing a field sobriety test, the agent refused to take a breath test. He was arrested and faces charges of 3rd and 4th degree driving while impaired.

Bengus81

(10,004 posts)
15. Unless he can prove the car drove itself then he should be charged with DUI
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 11:11 AM
Jan 30

Fuck it,who cares about legal shit, they don't. Throw that fucker in a cage in Gitmo and tell him he'll have a trial in 1-2 years.

FakeNoose

(41,027 posts)
10. "All the best people" ... NOT!!!!
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 10:38 AM
Jan 30

Get these disgusting and out-of-control people OUT of MINNESOTA!

Ray Bruns

(6,164 posts)
11. "upon finding the man slumped over his steering wheel while 'covered in vomit'."
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 10:47 AM
Jan 30

And here I thought this was a qualification for ICE.

Scrivener7

(59,073 posts)
13. Also, just an observation, but Mancillas is a Spanish name. I'm Irish. I don't think I'd join ICE if
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 11:01 AM
Jan 30

their remit was to go after undocumented Irish people. (And BTW, there are PLENTY of undocumented Irish people, but you never hear about them and ICE isn't going after them. Gosh. Wonder why.)

2na fisherman

(291 posts)
18. POC As Goons
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 12:00 PM
Jan 30

Good point. I'm amazed at how many POC there are acting as ICE/CBP agents. Videos reveal beneath their masks that there are Black and Hispanic agents eager to act within that LEO culture which is antithetical to their own self-interests. Are they too stupid or too in need of a job not to figure out that the ultimate goal of such goon squads is the creation of a totally white Christian nationalist nation?
I saw one video where a Hispanic agent asks an obviously white female citizen where she was born and further questions her right to film him. And he speaks in an almost broken English with a very thick Hispanic accent. What happens to him when he is off duty and is racially profiled for a traffic stop by his comrades who are white racist goons?

IcyPeas

(25,243 posts)
21. Maybe he was sick with himself and filled with guilt and shame
Fri Jan 30, 2026, 05:22 PM
Jan 30

at what he's been doing to innocent people and his stomach was tied up in knots. So he got shitfaced and self-medicated.... telling himself over and over that he's not a nazi...
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Maybe?



Jilly_in_VA

(14,197 posts)
27. Another "race traitor"
Mon Feb 2, 2026, 12:04 PM
Feb 2

just like the guys who murdered Alex Pretti. How many of the CBP guys up there are Hispanic? Inquiring minds &c.

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