Updated Apr 4, 2008 - 7:22 pm

Guests at B&B Witness to Border Crimes

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By RACHEL BELLE
710 KIRO Reporter

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At an inn perched right on the U.S.-Canadian border, you get more than just a bed and breakfast. You get a front row seat to watch some salacious border crime.

They don't call it the Smuggler's Inn for nothing. "All our rooms are theme rooms. We have the Joseph Kennedy room, the Al Capone room, the Captain's room, the Dirty Dan Harris room. All of these are infamous smugglers over the years," said Bob Boule.

And the bed and breakfast is capitalizing on it's notorious location. Boule says, "In each one of our rooms, we have binoculars, and we have night vision goggles. They're able to look out and see the border and look at the activity that's going on."

Inn Keeper Bob Boule says there is usually something to see; it's like a real-life version of "Cops." "If they stay up all night, 99 percent of the people see border patrol in the yard," said Boule.

And what do they see? Boule says, "In the last 3 years, we've had 126 people arrested going one direction or the other through our yard. It could be drugs, it could be money."

Some bed and breakfast guests have their night vision goggles on and they get so caught up in the action. They want to help catch the bad guys. Boule says, "Normally they wake up and tell us, but with the censors that are in the yard, the border patrol has already heard that they're going through. It's already on camera and chances are extremely well that border patrol is in the driveway already."

Boule says its not all cops and robbers at Smuggler's Inn, "The intent was to give a relaxing getaway for people to come and stay, but it's just kind of evolved when people ask questions, see the cameras, or ask about the censors in the yard, it's kind of evolved."

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