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\u201cTeam led by Middle Eastern Woman Caught Surveilling U.S. Facility on Mexican Border,\u201d Judicial Watch<\/a>, December 16, 2015:<\/p>\n DECEMBER 16, 2015<\/p>\n A Middle Eastern woman was caught surveilling a U.S. port of entry on the Mexican border holding a sketchbook with Arabic writing and drawings of the facility and its security system, federal law enforcement sources tell Judicial Watch.<\/p>\n The woman has been identified as 23-year-old Leila Abdelrazaq, according to a Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) report<\/a> obtained by JW this week. Abdelrazaq appeared to have two accomplices, a 31-year-old man named Gabriel Schivone and a 28-year-old woman named Leslie Mcafee. CBP agents noticed the trio \u201cobserving the facilities\u201d at the Port of Mariposa in Nogales, Arizona on December 2. Schivone was first noticed inside the entrance of the pedestrian area while the two women stood outside by the entry door, the CPB document states.<\/p>\n When federal officers asked Abdelrazaq why she was drawing sketches of the facilities she \u201cstated because she\u2019s never been to the border,\u201d according to the CBP report. Abdelrazaq resisted showing officers the sketchbook, citing personal reasons, but subsequently handed it over. \u201cDuring the inspection of the Abdelrazaq sketching book, CBPOs noticed the book contained writings in English and Arabic language,\u201d federal officers write in the document. \u201cThere were drawings of what appeared to be vehicle primary inspection area and an additional drawing of pedestrian turn stile gate depicting video surveillance cameras above the gate.\u201d The report proceeds to reveal that the drawings were \u201cpartial and incomplete.\u201d<\/p>\n This distressing information comes on the heels of two separate\u2014and equally alarming\u2014incidents in the same vicinity. A few weeks ago JW reported <\/a>that five young Middle Eastern men were apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol in Amado, an Arizona town situated about 30 miles from the Mexican border. Two of the men were carrying stainless steel cylinders in backpacks, alarming Border Patrol officials enough to call the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for backup. DHS officially denies this ever occurred, but law enforcement and other sources have confirmed to JW that the two men carrying the cylinders were believed to be taken into custody by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).<\/p>\n Of interesting note is that only three of the men\u2019s names were entered in the Border Patrol\u2019s E3 reporting system, which is used by the agency to track apprehensions, detention hearings and removals of illegal immigrants. E3 also collects and transmits biographic and biometric data including fingerprints for identification and verification of individuals encountered at the border. The other two men were listed as \u201cunknown subjects,\u201d which is unheard of, according to a JW federal law enforcement source. \u201cIn all my years I\u2019ve never seen that before,\u201d a veteran federal law enforcement agent told JW\u2026.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n