Border Patrol agents find missing Texas girl at checkpoint

(US Border Patrol Laredo Sector / Facebook)

U.S. Border Patrol says agents located a missing girl at a border checkpoint in Texas.

North Laredo agents found the girl, who was missing out of Odessa, Texas in a tractor-trailer at a checkpoint near Interstate 35, according to a Facebook post.

No details were released in regards to the girl's age or how long she had been missing.

Webb County Sheriff's Office took the driver of the 18-wheeler into custody.

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