By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Ia.) is voicing concern that guns purchased in an ATF sting in Arizona may have been used by bandits in a gunfight that resulted in the death in December of border patrol agent Brian Terry near the border town of Nogales, the Arizona Republic reported. Grassley…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI and other agencies are probing an incident Friday in which a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Texas shot and killed an unarmed teen who was driving a pickup truck filled with marijuana,the Associated Press reported. AP reported that the driver Juan Mendez,18, of Eagle Pass, Tex., died after getting…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The latest sign in the U.S. that there’s a drug war in Mexico: U.S. Border Patrol agents fired gunshots into Mexico Saturday after coming under attack in south Texas along the Rio Grande, the Associated Press reports. Authorities said the incident happened during a half-ton drug bust that involved Border Patrol…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Something is seriously ailing the U.S. Border Patrol. The Associated Press reports that the agency has seen the biggest spike in suicides among agents in at least 20 years. The news service reported that at least 15 agents have committed suicide since February 2008. It said few left notes. “Federal officials…
By Glynnesha Taylor ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — In 2009, the number of U.S. law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty reached a 50-year low. That downward trend is gone. The National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) in Washington is reporting a 43 percent increase of officers killed in the line of duty during the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An El Savador man illegally living in Houston was sentenced Tuesday to 55 months in prison for assaulting a Border Patrol agent with his vehicle near Laredo, Tex. while trying to transport 10 illegal aliens, authorities said. Authorities said that on Feb. 15, 2009, at approximately 10 p.m., Border Patrol agents…
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…
