Border Patrol: Armed bandits robbed 3 migrant groups in Otay Mountain wilderness

SAN DIEGO — Armed bandits have robbed and assaulted groups of migrant border-crossers at least three times in recent weeks near the Otay Mountain wilderness area, Border Patrol officials said Thursday. The attacks come six months after Border Patrol agents found three migrants shot and wounded in the same vicinity. Those victims said they were shot in Mexico just before crossing the international boundary. The series of holdups and assaults increases an already dangerous journey for migrants who often face some combination of extreme heat or bitter cold, a lack of food and water, rugged mounta...