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U.S. Border Patrol Agent Lonnie Ray Swartz was charged with second degree murder for the killing of José Rodríguez. There had been a number of similar incidents in the preceding decade, but this was the first time a US law enforcement officer was charged in relation to a killing that took part across the US–Mexican border. [4] [6]
TOHONO O’ODHAM NATION, Ariz. — It was a dark and chaotic scene in the Arizona desert the night 58-year-old Raymond Mattia died from nine bullet wounds after three Border Patrol agents fired ...
An appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction and life sentence of a man found guilty of killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent whose death exposed the botched federal gun operation known as ...
The US Border Patrol agent murdered during a traffic stop with a migrant in Vermont was an Air Force veteran who survived the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, his family said. David “Chris” Maland ...
The checkpoints are described as "the third layer in the Border Patrol's three-layer strategy", following "line watch" and "roving patrol" operations near the border. According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, [2] Border Patrol agents at checkpoints have legal authority that agents do not have when patrolling areas away from the ...
Under the Border Patrol's use-of-force guidelines, agents are permitted to employ lethal force against rock throwers if they pose a threat. [43] In January 2007, border patrol agent Nicholas Corbett shot and killed Francisco Javier Domínguez Rivera [44] after the latter tried to smash his head with a rock according to the officer's lawyer. [45]
A relative of a Native American man who was killed by Border Patrol agents near the Arizona-Mexico border two weeks ago said she was talking to him moments before he was shot and he told her he ...
Zapata entered on duty with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (Office of the United States Border Patrol) on February 6, 2006, as a Border Patrol Agent. Zapata was a member of the U.S. Border Patrol Academy's 611th Session. After his graduation Zapata was assigned to the Border Patrol Yuma Station in Yuma, Arizona.