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Mexican Police Arrest 3rd Suspect in Slaying of Border Patrol Agent

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The December 2010 slaying of Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry shed light on the U.S. government’s botched gun-smuggling investigation, Operation Fast and Furious, The Washington Times reports. Now a third suspect is in custody in the shootout that left Terry dead in the Arizona borderlands. Police in Sinaloa, Mexico, arrested suspect…

Former Border Patrol Agent Sentenced to More than Four Years for Gun Smuggling

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Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former Border Patrol agent was sentenced in El Paso, Tex. to 51 months in prison for his role in buying guns to be smuggled into Mexico, the Associated Press reports. The sentence was part of a plea deal in which Ricardo Montalvo agreed to plead guilty to recruiting others as straw…