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Deputy U.S. Marshals Increasingly Being Put in Harms Way

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Marshals Service has becoming increasingly involved in apprehending local and federal officials, which may explain in part why its deputies are increasingly being put in harms way, the website Talking Points Memo suggests. In the past several weeks, two deputy U.S. marshals have been shot and killed…

Wounded Deputy U.S. Marshal Dies in St. Louis

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A deputy marshal who was critically injured Tuesday morning while trying to arrest a man in St. Louis, died from his wounds Tuesday night around 7 p.m., the St. Louis Post Dispatch reported. The paper identified the slain deputy U.S. Marshal as John Perry, 48, who had been with the agency…