Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Family members of a Border Patrol agent who killed himself after allegedly assaulting three immigrant women are having trouble processing the news. “It’s really hard to believe,” Susana Manzanares said of her ex-husband Esteban Manzanares, who shot himself after authorities say he sexually assaulted three women on Wednesday. Manzanares described her husband…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Border Patrol agent is accused of shooting to death a Central Texas man in a fit of jealousy, the Associated Press reports. Authorities said Agent Adam Garibay bound his wife in duct tape and demanded she reveal the name of the man she was dating. “He was able to get from…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol Agent Ivhan Herrera-Chiang had one major job – stop criminals from smuggling drugs. But Herrera exploited his position to help smugglers bring meth, cocaine and marijuana into the U.S., the Arizona Central reports. On Tuesday, he was sentenced to 15 years behind bars on four felony counts of bribery. “You have…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol Agent Nick Ivie thought he was tracking down Mexican drug smugglers in October 2012 when a shootout unfolded. Ivie was fatally shot by a fellow officer who believed Ivie was a criminal. For the first time, his wife, Christy Ivie, spoke out about the shooting, CBS 5 reports. “There were…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Mexican national admitted Wednesday that he and two other gunman were involved in the 2009 murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in southern California, CNN reports. Marcos Rodriguez-Perez pleaded guilty to conspiracy, robbery and firearm charges, saying he and two others detained Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas Jr. at gunpoint….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Anthony Aragon saw the bicyclist on his right and prepared to carefully pass him. But the off-duty Border Patrol agent said the bicyclist veered into his lane, causing him to strike 47-year-old Floyd Hancock in New Mexico on Saturday morning, the El Paso Times reports. Aragon jumped out of his car and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol Agent Kris Gungon was found dead in a waterfall while at a family vacation in Hawaii with his family, the U-T San Diego reports. The 31-year-old agent was vacationing with his wife and their infant daughter, U-T San Diego wrote. The four-year Border Patrol veteran, who was assigned to the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The family of a Border Patrol agent killed in a firefight along the Arizona-Mexico is suing federal officials, saying the botched “Fast and Furious” gun-running operation put law enforcement authorities at grave danger, the Associated Press reports. The lawsuit is the latest fallout from an investigation that allowed gun-smuggling rings to…
