By Allyson Blair | CBS 5 News
For Tony Sedgwick life doesn’t get much better than it is now.
“It’s magnificent country. It’s beautiful. It’s green. It’s full of wildlife,” Sedgwick said.
Ranching runs in his blood. His family has raised cattle in Santa Cruz County for more than a century.
His parents bought Carmencita Ranch three decades ago. From atop the 700-acre spread can be seen the city of Nogales and the Patagonia Mountains.
There’s also a bird’s-eye view of the border fence with Mexico about a mile below, something that drew the interest of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in 1993.
Back then Sedgwick agreed to lease a 10-foot-by-10-foot space on Hines’ Ridge to the agency for $350 a year to park a mobile surveillance tower on his property.
