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Border Agent Attacked Gunshots exchanged in remote

Josey1Josey1 Member Posts: 9,598 ✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
Gunshots exchanged in remote border area
By Tim Steller
ARIZONA DAILY STAR


A U.S. Border Patrol agent exchanged fire with a gunman Saturday in the same area where an agent was fired upon two months ago.

A Border Patrol spokesman, Ryan Scudder, confirmed the Saturday incident but provided few details, deferring to the investigating agencies.

Scudder said the agent fired on someone during the incident and that the agent was fired upon. No one was hit during the exchange, which took place near Papago Farms, a village in the southwestern Tohono O'odham Nation.

The agent and gunman were both north of the U.S.-Mexican border, Scudder said.

The Tohono O'odham police conducted an initial investigation of the incident, then turned the case over to the FBI.

On May 17, a Border Patrol agent working near Papago Farms reported being fired upon by Mexican soldiers in a military vehicle. The Mexican government denied there were any soldiers in the area.

That shooting came a few hours after a pair of incidents in the same area: A Tohono O'odham police ranger reported being chased by Mexican soldiers, and U.S. Customs Service agents seizing a ton of marijuana.

* Contact reporter Tim Steller at 434-4086 or at steller@azstarnet.com. http://www.azstarnet.com/border/20730PATROL.html


"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

Edited by - Josey1 on 07/31/2002 06:55:52

Comments

  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The corrupt Federales are escorting the drugs over the border. Guess Vicente Fox needs to receive a few body bags to force the issue. But then, in my book, it should be open season on any group found sneaking across the border; it would bring this illegal activity to a screeching halt real quickly.
  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    The only way we are ever going to get the mexican government to admit its military is invading the US is if we give them a body count. Maybe the border patrol isnt up to the task but Id be willing to bet money that there are plenty of pissed off Texas ranchers whod be willing to make it happen.

    When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Why doont the worlds only Super Power pull that splinter from her thumb.I dont see why we put a stop to thst once and for all.

    Rugster
  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    How about some Appache Longbow's patrolling the border, any mexican army or drug runners cross it, and they get peppered with air to ground missles and 20mm autocannon.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

    The sound of a 12 gauge pump clears a house fatser than Rosie O eats a Big Mac !
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