Two men from Nova Scotia are in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody following an incident at the Houlton border crossing.
According to a statement issued by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Friday, they responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle that had stopped in the area between the Canada and U.S. border crossings.
Two men inside the vehicle were refusing to communicate with Canada Border Services Agency officials or police.
They were arrested Friday afternoon after their vehicle entered U.S. port of entry. A twenty-one year-old man from Halifax and a 22-year-old man from Sackville, Nova Scotia were taken into U.S. custody.
Traffic on both sides of the border was disrupted during the incident.
Updated 6: 15 p.m. Oct. 26
