By Allan Lengel ticklthewire.com Retired Border Patrol agent and field operations supervisor John Hubert tells the El Paso Times that it’s not always easy being an agent in El Paso. “I learned early on that if you’re a Border Patrol agent in El Paso… basically you’re an object of scorn to about 75 percent of…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona pleaded guilty Friday in federal court in Tucson to assaulting a Mexican National in his custody, the Justice Department said. Agent Eduardo Moreno admitted that on May 10, 2006, while on duty at the U.S. Border Patrol Processing Center in Nogales, Ariz., he kicked…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Mexican authorities are condemning the death of a 32-year-old Mexican man who died days after a U.S. Border Patrol agent shocked him with a stun gun at a California border crossing, the Associated Press is reporting. AP reported that Anastasio Hernandez died Monday at a hospital in Chula Vista, south of…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News From three Pittsburgh cops gunned down in one day to a U.S. border patrol agent ambushed by Mexican teens, the year 2009 was an especially deadly one for local and federal law enforcement, according to the FBI. In its preliminary report, the FBI found a 17 percent jump in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Some times making a little extra doe on Craigslist isn’t so wise. Retired Border Patrol agent David Pietrantonio has been charged in San Diego with selling official equipment to undercover FBI agents, the Associated Press reported. He had pleaded not guilty on Wednesday. AP reports that Pietrantonio tried to sell “a…
The Border Patrol has had its share of problems and bad publicity. Now the family of a man killed by an agent is pursuing a lawsuit. This doesn’t help. By TIM HULL Courthouse News Service TUCSON — The family of a man who was shot to death by a Border Patrol agent says the agency’s…
The drug trade along the Mexican border continues to show disturbing signs of corruption and death. Apparently some U.S. Border agents can be bought. That is very very dangerous. By The Associated Press McALLEN, Texas — Corruption along the U.S.-Mexican border takes many forms. It can start as simply as a smuggler’s $50 gift to…
The violence from drugs and border crossings continues. Is the only answer more agents and troops? By Richard Marosi Los Angeles Times SAN DIEGO — Mexican authorities have detained five people in connection with last week’s fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent, but U.S. investigators have not said whether they are suspects in…
