Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A $13 million Border Patrol is planned for North Dakota, the Associated Press reports. The building is expected to be 30,000-square-feet on 10 acres of land in Pembina, in the northeast section of the state. As the government wraps up the property purchase, construction could begin in a few months. The station…
By Steve Neavling ticklethwire.com A 32-year-old mother of five in suburban San Diego is dead after a Border Patrol agent shot her while riding on the hood of her car Friday, Fox News reports. Family members and authorities disagree on what happened. Local police said Valeria Alvarado, 32, was fatally shot when she ran into…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A veteran Border Patrol agent faces charges of indecency with a child after surrendering to authorities following accusations that he molested a 14-year-old relative, 6 News reports. Jose Jalomos, 49, is to be charged in two counties where he’s accused of fondling the girl at a ranch and another undisclosed location over…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was gunned down in a 2010 shootout with bandits north of the Mexican border in December 2010, the Associated Press reports. His memory was honored Tuesday with the grand opening of a new Border Patrol station named after him. The fatal shooting caused an uproar after authorities…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The frustrated family of a Border Patrol agent killed nearly two years ago along the Arizona-Mexico border said they want the truth about what happened, Fox 10 News reports. “If the truth comes out and they tell me the truth, I’ll be happy with that, but I don’t want to just sit there…
Steve Neavlng ticklethewire.com A grand opening is planned Tuesday for the U.S. Border Patrol’s new station in Naco, Arizona, the Associated Press reports. The station will honor Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was killed in December 2010 in a gun skirmish with armed Mexican bandits on the U.S. side of the Arizona and Mexican…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A retired president of the union representing U.S. Border Patrol Agents is accused of using hundreds of thousands of dollars in labor funds for personal use beginning in 2007, New American reports. Terrence J. “T.J.” Bonner, who is accused of 12 counts of conspiring to commit fraud, was indicted by a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating the death of a Mexican resident who was allegedly shot over the Rio Grande River by a U.S. Border Patrol agent, the Associated Press reports. The 29-year-old man was killed Saturday by a single bullet over the border from Brownsville, Texas. A spokesman for the Border Patrol said…
