⚠️ This is a post from Suzanne Coates Taylor that was on Facebook last night.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/bQ1ozqH1WBuK7JnC/?mibextid=WC7FNe

Last night  I was chased by drug smugglers while traveling to our border ranch.

Disclosure* This is NOT a Pro-Republican nor Pro Democrat Post. There is no one who votes more moderate middle than me. I am known to support Republican and Democrat candidates with my vote and my contributions. But what we can ALL agree on is that we are against drug smugglers. I hesitated to post this, but if you don’t know already, there is an actual border crisis and last night at 9pm as I drove the two lane road from Brackettville to Rocksprings, I became a victim of this crisis.

I was alone, driving my SUV with no one behind me. All of a sudden there was a smaller SUV right on my bumper with their bright lights on trying to run me off of the road. If I would have gone off of road, I would have flipped. I slowed down thinking there was a high speed chase occurring, hoping they would pass me. After giving them every opportunity to pass, the unsettling realization occurred that they did not want to pass…they wanted me, my car, something…but they wanted me to pull over with them.

Knowing I was 7-8 minutes from the ranch, I used voice command and called Keith, my husband. He picked up and the first word out of my mouth was “HELP.” I told him what was occurring, told him to open the ranch gate, and he immediately jumped in his truck to start coming my way.

I then floored it, reaching over a 100 miles per hour to try to out run them. The only reason I was able to put some distance between us was because I knew the road better of a curvy hill. After the hill Keith was on the side of the road and pulled out right behind me. He then drove in the middle of the road blocking off the SUV until I got through our gate.

As Keith approached our ranch gate, he drove in and the SUV turned in as well to our cattle guard. Still on the phone with me, Keith told me to get the boys hidden and to get Cinco and Dad because they were coming into the ranch. I drove up to the house and screamed at the boys to get inside and yelled for Cinco and Dad.

Keith then immediately stopped his truck out to confront them. By a miracle, once they saw Keith get out, they pulled back. They did open their door to get out, but eventually drove off.

These individuals were eventually arrested and found to be smugglers.

We are at war here in our own state. Thankfully, I was close enough to our ranch for Keith to block these individuals, but someone else may not be so lucky. This is real. This scary. Unfortunately, this is now our reality on the Texas border.