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Tag: U.S.-Mexico Border: Page 3
Patrol
Retrial Begins for Border Agent Who Fatally Shot Rock-Throwing Mexican Teen
The retrial of Border Patrol Agent Lonnie Swartz—who in 2012 shot and killed 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena RodrĂguez—has begun in Tucson's federal court.
October 26, 2018
Patrol
Extradited Suspect Pleads Not Guilty in Agent Brian Terry's Slaying
A man extradited to the United States from Mexico this week has pleaded not guilty to charges of pulling the trigger in the slaying of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in Arizona eight years ago.
August 3, 2018
Patrol
Man Accused of Striking Border Patrol Agent with Rock, Stealing ATV
A man is accused of hitting a Border Patrol agent with a rock and stealing his ATV before he was shot by agents and arrested near the Tijuana River estuary early Sunday.
July 30, 2018
Patrol
Texas Deputies Barred from Moonlighting at Immigrant Children’s Detention Facilities
El Paso (TX) County Sheriff Richard Wiles has prohibited his deputies from working off-duty at a temporary shelter housing immigrant children who “were forcibly separated from their families.”
June 25, 2018
Patrol
California's Brown Agrees to Send Guard to Border, Slams Trump Policies
But Brown suggested a very limited role for the 400 additional California troops, writing to Nielsen and Mattis that support operations would be focused on “targeting transnational criminal gangs, human traffickers and illegal firearm and drug smugglers along the border, the coast and throughout the state.”
April 11, 2018
Patrol
3 Border States to Send 1,600 Troops to U.S. Border
Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas pledged on Monday to send about 1,600 National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border, responding to President Donald Trump's plan to use the military to help fight illegal immigration and drug trafficking.
April 10, 2018
Patrol
Murder Trial of Border Patrol Agent Accused of Shooting Across Border and Killing Mexican Teen Begins in Tucson
Swartz's lawyers have said Elena Rodriguez threw rocks just before he was shot in an attempt to create a distraction for drug smugglers and that the officer was justified in using lethal force. They have requested that jurors visit the site at night to experience the area after dark.
March 20, 2018
Patrol
FBI: No Evidence of Homicide in 2017 Death of Border Patrol Agent
“To date, this investigation has not conclusively determined how Agent Rogelio Martinez and his partner ended up at the bottom of the culvert, and no suspects have been linked to this incident,” the FBI said in a written statement Wednesday. “To date none of the more than 650 interviews completed, locations searched, or evidence collected and analyzed have produced evidence that would support the existence of a scuffle, altercation, or attack.”
February 8, 2018
Patrol
FBI Questions 2 Brothers Over Death of Border Patrol Agent
An informant told an agent with U.S. Customs and Border Protection he knew of a “coyote” that had recently smuggled a group of people across the U.S. Mexico border. Two of the people in that group identified as brothers spoke about assaulting Agent Martinez and his partner with rocks, according to the court document.
December 8, 2017
Patrol
America's Biggest Crime Scene
The U.S.-Mexico border is one of the most dangerous patrol areas in the country, and the Border Patrol agents who work its most remote areas are often many miles away from help.
December 7, 2017
Patrol
Border Patrol Agent was Found Dead in Culvert
FBI spokeswoman Jeanette Harper said in a statement Monday that both agents were found late Saturday night in a culvert near Van Horn and that both had traumatic head injuries. Harper said Rogelio Martinez died early Sunday. The FBI is leading the investigation and results of his autopsy are pending.
November 21, 2017
Patrol
Border Patrol Agent Killed in Texas, Partner Seriously Injured in Attack
Authorities are searching southwest Texas for suspects or witnesses after a U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed and his partner seriously injured Sunday while on patrol in the state’s Big Bend area, officials said.
November 20, 2017
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