The 41-year-old Mexican man apparently died of heat-related complications.

                 LUKE TURF

                    A 41-year-old Mexican man died in U.S. Border Patrol custody yesterday,
                 the first illegal immigrant death in more than a week.
                    Border Patrol spokesman Rob Daniels said the man was found in Hog
                 Canyon east of Douglas.
                    He was in distress and eventually stopped breathing. Resuscitation efforts
                 failed and he died just before noon, Daniels said. "He was obviously showing
                 signs of distress. He passed out and then he stopped breathing after the agents
                 arrived."
                    The Mexican consul in Douglas, Miguel Escobar Valdez, said the Jalisco
                 man's name is Juan Tovar Hernandez.
                    "When they got to him he looked really bad," Escobar said.
                    Border Patrol officials are reporting this as the 55th death of the fiscal year
                 in the Tucson sector, which comprises most of Arizona's border with Mexico.
                 The fiscal year ends Sept. 30.
                    Daniels said the Cochise County Sheriff's Department was notified and is
                 the investigating agency. It is believed the man died of heat-related
                 complications, he said.
                    Escobar said the autopsy will take place today. The last body was
                 discovered June 18, Daniels said.
                    According to Daniels, in 49 incidents, a total of 214 illegal immigrants were
                 rescued by Tucson-sector agents.
                    In June, Daniels says, the Border Patrol has apprehended 27,496 illegal
                 immigrants. In all of June in 2002, 30,898 apprehensions were made, he said.
                 The sector has also confiscated 297,610 pounds of marijuana since October,
                 Daniels said.