SOUTH PADRE ISLAND — U.S. Customs and Border Protection has found its lost ... Witnesses said it was headed toward the Gulf of Mexico and CBP’s Air and Marine Operations division searched ...

The City of South Padre Island, Texas, says tar on the beach is a ‘natural occurrence” and seeps from the Gulf of Mexico. (Sandra Sanchez/Border Report) The tar is just one issue plaguing the ...

Three other people were also attacked by a shark that same day on South Padre Island, which is a popular vacation destination on the Gulf of Mexico near the Mexican border with South Texas.