Hidden camera footage captures armed scouts leading a group of drug “mules” toting bales of marijuana through a desert wash 50 miles southwest of Phoenix, Ariz.

This stunning video was recently captured in the very area where an Arizona sheriff’s deputy was shot by narco-terrorists last Friday -- about 70 miles north of the border in a well-known drug and human trafficking corridor.

Border Patrol agents already stretched thin at the border are sparse in this particular area because of the distance from the actual border. Patrols are primarily left to the Pinal County deputy sheriffs.