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…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. Border Patrol acknowledged Thursday that an agent shot a Mexican citizen along the border. The patrol’s Laredo sector said in a statement that the shooting occurred after rocks were thrown at agents. “A weapon was discharged by Border Patrol. All appropriate authorities were notified and the shooting is under…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com An ATF agent shot and wounded two men in St. Louis on Wednesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The paper reported that ATF agents and police were trying to arrest the two men when the shooting occurred. The men were hospitalized and one was in critical condition.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Northern California man accused of attempted murder in the shootings three U.S. Homeland Security agents with an assault rifle has been charged, the Sacramento Bee reports. Victor Flores, 20, was indicted Tuesday in connection with a May 3 shooting outside his home in Petaluma. At the time of the shootings, federal…
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is recovering after he accidentally shot himself in Miami Beach after a traffic stop Saturday, NBC 6 Miami reports. After talking to the driver of the car he pulled over, the agent was walking back to his car when his gun went off and shot him in the leg….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An ATF agent who was killed trying to prevent a pharmacy robbery in his hometown in New York had a portion of a street named after him over the weekend, Newsday reports. Senior Special Agent John F. Capano Avenue is the new name of Waverly Avenue at Seamans Neck Road where Capano…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Unable to discern who is telling the truth, Orange County prosecutors won’t seek criminal charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who shot the wrong drug suspect, The Orange County Register reports. Prosecutors said they could not confirm Daniel Noriega’s story that claims an ICE agent shot at him without provocation….
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com More than 100 people memorialized two slain U.S. Coastguard employees in Alaska last week as “full of honor, courage and passion for their families,” but the FBI offered little closure on their deaths. The L.A. Times reports that the April 12th shooting of Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class James Hopkins and…
