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    ICE agent shot in Texas (updated)

    ICE agent shot in South Texas

    The Associated Press
    Published: Tuesday, Jul. 3, 2012 - 8:15 am

    McALLEN, Texas -- A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent has been shot while conducting surveillance in South Texas.

    ICE spokeswoman Nina Pruneda says the agent with ICE's Homeland Security Investigations was shot Tuesday morning in Hidalgo County. She says the agent was conducting surveillance related to an ongoing criminal investigation.

    Pruneda says the special agent was taken to a hospital and is undergoing surgery for a gunshot wound.

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    Article above has been updated to the following:

    Last Modified: Tuesday, Jul. 3, 2012 - 8:51 am

    HARGILL, Texas -- Dozens of law enforcement officers picked over a miles-long crime scene bisecting a rural South Texas town Tuesday, collecting evidence after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was shot while conducting surveillance.

    The agent with ICE's Homeland Security Investigations was shot early Tuesday near Hargill, about 25 miles northeast of McAllen. The agent was conducting surveillance related to an ongoing criminal investigation, ICE spokeswoman Nina Pruneda said. The agent was taken to a local hospital and was undergoing surgery, she said.

    There was no immediate word on the agent's condition.

    Texas state troopers blocked several miles of the main road through Hargill. At one end investigators with metal detectors walked through tall grass around a small white house. Officers from local, state and federal agencies scoured the road for several miles to the north of the house, looking for discarded shell casings and other evidence. At the north end of the crime scene, an SUV with its rear window broken out sat about 50 yards off the road behind a row of squat trees. Border Patrol agents and other investigators picked their way through grass nearby.

    FBI spokesman Erik Vasys said his agency is leading the investigation into the assault on a federal officer, but that any details regarding the incident would likely come from ICE.

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    I.C.E. Agent shot

    HARGILL - Investigators are walking a four-mile stretch of FM 493, in search of bullet casings connected with the shooting of an ICE agent. Two have already been located.

    Hidalgo County dispatchers got a call about the shooting around 4:30 a.m. The injured agent was taken to the hospital and underwent surgery. There's no word yet on the agent's condition.

    According to Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino, the FBI will be leading the investigation. He told us the agent was shot twice.

    An ICE spokeswoman said the agent was conducting surveillance related to an ongoing criminal investigation at the time of the shooting.

    CHANNEL 5 NEWS learned two scenes are being investigated in connection with the shooting. We're told a chase started near FM 493 and Cemetery Road and continued north of FM 493 until Highway 186.

    Investigators said during the chase at least three rounds were fired. The agents' vehicle ended up in a brushy area.

    CHANNEL 5 NEWS has crews at both scenes. We're gathering more information and will have an update on CHANNEL 5 NEWS at NOON.

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    ICE agent stable after being shot while conducting surveillance in South Texas

    By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, July 3, 12:00 PM
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    HARGILL, Texas — A federal immigration agent who was shot while taking part in a criminal investigation near a rural South Texas town early Tuesday was out of surgery and in stable condition, officials said.

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Nina Pruneda said ICE Homeland Security Investigations agent Kelton Harrison was in stable condition at a local hospital following surgery. Harrison was shot while conducting surveillance as part of an ongoing criminal investigation, Pruneda said. He has been working with the agency in the area since 2010.

    Harrison was shot by men around 3:30 a.m. near Hargill, about 25 miles northeast of McAllen, Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino said. Colleagues rushed him to a hospital.

    Investigators do not have any suspects or a vehicle description, but they are following some promising leads, said Trevino, whose agency is assisting in the investigation.

    Texas state troopers blocked several miles of the main road through Hargill. At one end, investigators with metal detectors walked through tall grass around a small white house. Officers from local, state and federal agencies scoured the road for several miles to the north of the house, looking for discarded shell casings and other evidence.

    At the north end of the crime scene, an SUV with its rear window broken out sat about 50 yards off the road behind a row of squat trees. Border Patrol agents and other investigators picked their way through grass nearby.

    FBI spokesman Erik Vasys said his agency is leading the investigation into the assault on a federal officer, but that any details regarding the incident would likely come from ICE.

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    3 in custody after ICE agent shot near Hargill

    July 3, 2012
    Jared Taylor
    The Monitor

    HARGILL — Authorities detained three people after a federal agent suffered two gunshot wounds Tuesday in an early-morning attack in a remote corner of eastern Hidalgo County.

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Kelton Harrison remained in stable condition at McAllen Medical Center about 4 p.m. Tuesday, about 12 hours after he suffered two gunshot wounds to the abdomen during an attack and chase near Hargill.

    A fellow law enforcement agent frantically rushed Harrison from the Hidalgo-Willacy county line to Edinburg, where an ambulance transported him to the hospital after the shooting.

    Harrison and at least one other agent were conducting surveillance in a brushy area outside Hargill along Farm-to-Market Road 493 about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, when at least one person confronted the agent, with a firearm in tow.

    Law enforcement investigators recovered at least two bullet casings — likely from a 9 mm pistol — at the junction of the two rural highways after sunrise Tuesday.

    Three “people of very special interest” had been taken into custody by Tuesday evening, Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño said, declining to reveal more details about their roles in the case.

    “They could be witnesses, could be participants and that’s what we can say at this point,” he said. “We expect to make an arrest soon and things are developing very quickly.”

    The crime scene stretched about four miles along FM 493, from the south side of Hargill to the intersection with Highway 186, where Harrison abandoned his unmarked unit.

    It is unclear whether the gunfire continued at the intersection, after Harrison’s vehicle went into in a field behind a stand of mesquite trees along the highway. The unmarked Jeep SUV sat among grazing steers while FBI, ICE, Hidalgo County sheriff’s investigators and other agencies attempted to reconstruct what had transpired after sunrise. The SUV’s rear windshield and front passenger window had both been shot.

    A colleague of Harrison called for an ambulance, originally planning on meeting emergency crews in Hargill, only to redirect the rendezvous point to University Drive and Expressway 281 in Edinburg, where the ambulance approached 100 mph down the mostly empty thoroughfare.

    The fellow agent’s unmarked SUV trailed closely behind and was joined by several Pharr police units that scrambled to clear the way to McAllen Medical Center.

    Harrison has been with ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations arm since 2010. ICE continued to investigate the case Tuesday night alongside the FBI, Texas Department of Public Safety and county Sheriff’s Office.

    “Our thoughts and prayers are with the special agent and his family,” ICE spokeswoman Nina Pruneda said in a statement.

    Harrison’s attack was the first time an ICE agent fell victim to gunfire since May 10, when an off-duty agent in Miami was shot by a gunman along a turnpike.

    Helicopters buzzed overhead Tuesday morning as investigators used metal detectors to examine the four-mile stretch of FM 493, from a white house cordoned off at the corner of 11th Street on the southern edge of Hargill, north to the route’s terminus at Highway 186.

    Authorities raided a third location, about three miles east of Hargill along 11th Street, believed to be a possible stash house related to the case.

    Harrison’s attack appeared to share similarities with an Hidalgo County sheriff’s deputy’s ambush at the hands of suspected Gulf Cartel henchmen in late October, during a kidnapping investigation.

    But authorities would not specify Tuesday whether Harrison’s attack has any ties to Mexican cartels or local street gangs. One investigator said the agents’ investigation related to a group of human smugglers and drug traffickers based near Hargill.

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    Father, son charged in shooting of ICE agent in Texas

    Father, son charged in shooting of ICE agent in Texas

    Published July 05, 2012
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    McALLEN, Texas – A father and son were charged Thursday with shooting a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent in South Texas, prosecutors said Thursday.

    Pedro Alvarado, 41, and his 18-year-old son Arnoldo Alvarado are charged with assault of a federal officer and knowingly using and carrying a firearm during a violent crime. Both are expected to appear before a federal judge Thursday morning. They face up to 20 years in prison if convicted on the assault charge and a minimum of 10 years and up to life in prison on the weapons count.

    The agent, Kelton Harrison, was shot early Tuesday morning while conducting surveillance on an anticipated drug deal at a property near Hargill, 25 miles northeast of the border town of McAllen. Harrison required surgery but is expected to fully recover.

    Arnoldo Alvarado told authorities that his father spotted what he considered a suspicious vehicle and told him and another person "to get the guns," according to a criminal complaint. The third person was a minor who was not named in the complaint and has been turned over to state authorities.

    The three got into a car and approached the other vehicle with their lights off. The minor fired six times at the vehicle using a .22-caliber rifle and Arnoldo Alvarado fired twice with a 9-mm handgun, the complaint says.

    Harrison then drove away and Pedro Alvarado chased after him, it says. Arnoldo Alvarado continued to fire his handgun at Harrison's vehicle, the complaint says.

    Harrison eventually lost control of his car and was discovered, shot and injured, by other agents. Authorities subsequently searched a home in Hargill and arrested the two men and the minor.

    Authorities said they also found two illegal immigrants, listed in online records as material witnesses in the case, but did not say if they suspected they were involved in the shooting.

    Attorneys were not listed in online records for either Alvarado.

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    Relatives say father, sons acted out of fear
    By Lynn Brezosky
    Updated 10:41 p.m., Friday, July 6, 2012
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    HARGILL — A father and his two sons, accused in the shooting of an ICE agent,

    acted out of fear, their relatives said Friday in a community familiar with border-style violence and a distrust of strangers.

    The sons have admitted to opening fire Tuesday near their home, injuring an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who sat inside a darkened vehicle conducting surveillance in the area.

    But family members say Pedro Alvarado, 41, suspected the agent was an intruder and acted to protect their rural home, where the family has been attacked in the past.

    Just a few months ago, Pedro Alvarado's wife was accosted at their front gate by “pseudo cops” who held a gun to her head, according to relatives. The incident ended when those in the house rushed out and chased away the thugs.

    Amparo Ramirez, the family matriarch who lives nearby, said the ICE vehicle was parked on the next-door property and that no attempt was made to notify home owners of surveillance activity.

    “They thought it was somebody breaking in,” Ramirez said. “The ICE didn't identify itself. The kids explained what they did.”

    It wasn't the first time the home has been a target for crime, including three recent attempted break-ins, according to another relative at the home Friday, who asked not to be named.

    Pedro Alvarado and his son Arnoldo Alvarado, 18, were questioned following a consent search of their home after the shooting. A federal magistrate Thursday ordered them detained pending a detention hearing Tuesday. The two are charged with assault of a federal officer. The other son, a 16-year-old, was charged in juvenile court with attempted capital murder.

    Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Treviño said he has asked the district attorney's office to have the minor son tried as an adult.

    According to court documents, Arnoldo Alvarado said his father told him and his brother to “get the guns” because there was a suspicious vehicle nearby. Pedro Alvarado drove to the vehicle, parked with headlights off, and the brothers began shooting and continued as ICE Special Agent Kelton Harrison drove away.

    Harrison lost control of the vehicle, which according to a source familiar with the investigation, was unmarked.

    Harrison was shot once in the back and rushed to a McAllen hospital, where he underwent surgery Tuesday and is expected to recover.

    Department of Justice spokeswoman Angela Dodge said she could not comment as to whether the surveillance involved the Alvarado home, if Harrison was on private property, if ICE had notified home owners of surveillance or if drugs were found in the house.

    “At present, this information is not part of the public record and, therefore, beyond what I or any other person involved in the case could comment on,” she said.

    In a news release Thursday, she said ICE-Homeland Security Investigations special agents “were conducting surveillance in anticipation of a narcotics transaction believed to be occurring near Hargill.”

    Carlos Ramirez, the boys' uncle, said the youths “got scared” the night of the shooting.

    “They ain't bad boys, that's for sure,” he said, noting that Arnoldo Alvarado spoke of going to school to be an air-conditioning technician and was planning to marry his high school sweetheart. “The only thing they did was play football.”

    An Express-News criminal records search in the Texas Department of Public Safety database for Pedro Alvarado was inconclusive. No records were found for Arnoldo Alvarado.

    Treviño could not be reached for comment Friday to confirm the family's allegations of previous break-ins. The sheriff has commented in the past about pseudo cop incidents in Hidalgo County.

    “People have cars that look like police cars, and they try to rob you,” the relative at Alvarado's home said Friday. “They dress up like cops.”

    Because the home is isolated, set off from a country highway by a narrow road and about a quarter-mile of thick mesquite, it's vulnerable to break-ins, he said.

    “It's just a house. It's not that great. We don't have nothing to steal.”

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    Bond Denied for Father, Son Accused of Shooting Agent

    Posted: Jul 10, 2012 4:22 PM
    Updated: Jul 10, 2012 4:55 PM

    McALLEN - A federal judge today denied bond for a father and son charged in the attempted murder of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent last week near Hargill.

    U.S. Magistrate Peter Ormsby ruled the assault case was sufficiently serious to keep Pedro Alvarado and his 18-year-old son Arnold behind bars while the case is heard in court.

    The pair testified they didn't know the victim was a federal agent when they chased him.

    Also in custody as a suspect is the Pedro's 16-year-old son, who's charged as a juvenile in a state district court with attempted capital murder.

    A federal agent took the stand during today's hearing to tell a judge what happened the day his partner, Kelton Harrison, was shot.

    Court proceedings revealed that the agents were taking part of a two-year-long investigation when they were allegedly chased and shot at by Pedro and his two sons. Today's testimony revealed that Harrison was not armed during the surveillance operation. He was not wearing a uniform and was not in a marked vehicle.

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    Teen could be tried as adult in ICE agent shooting near Hargill

    Posted: Friday, January 25, 2013 8:15 pm

    Ildefonso Ortiz
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    EDINBURG — A state district judge is expected to decide Tuesday whether a 17-year-old boy who shot an ICE agent will be tried as an adult or face juvenile charges.

    Testimony was heard Friday before 449th state District Judge Jesse Contreras to determine the legal fate of the teenager, who was 16 years old during the July 2012 shooting near Hargill.

    On July 3, 2012, Pedro Alvarado woke up his sons Arnoldo Alvarado and the teenager because of suspicious vehicles near their Hargill home.

    The vehicles belonged to agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who were conducting surveillance on a property near Farm-to-Market Road 493 and Cemetery Road.

    ICE agent Kelton Harrison was shot after a vehicle pulled up behind him as he was performing surveillance from inside his parked vehicle, court records show.

    Arriving behind Harrison just before the shots were Pedro Alvarado and his sons, who were 16 and 18 at the time. Authorities say they opened fire on the agent and, when he tried to flee, chased him and kept shooting.

    Harrison was shot in the midsection, but he has recovered.

    During the hearing, Contreras heard testimony from Hidalgo County sheriff’s Investigator Joshua Kaltenbach, who is assigned to a task force with the FBI and is the lead investigator in the case against the teenager.

    Kaltenbach testified that the teen admitted to taking his .22 caliber rifle after his father woke him up and fired repeatedly at the vehicle. A second vehicle driven by neighbor Rene Garcia, who faces federal charges in the case, also took part in the chase, Kaltenbach said.

    After the shooting, Garcia met Alvarado and his sons at their residence and stowed away a hunting rifle he was carrying, Kaltenbach said.

    The teenager and his family later conjured a story about being asleep at the time of the shooting and not hearing anything, Kaltenbach said. The teen and two illegal immigrants who were staying at the house hid weapons in the attic.

    Arnoldo Alvarado told agents that on at least five occasions, marijuana bundles had been kept at the house, Kaltenbach said, adding that the drugs were kept throughout the house.

    During cross-examination, Kaltenbach told defense attorney Ricardo Flores that deputies had been called to the area earlier that night by neighbors claiming to have seen 30 men with rifles escorting a semi-trailer filled with drugs.

    Flores asked whether Harrison was not carrying his government-issued firearm and had been reprimanded for it. Kaltenbach said he didn’t know about a reprimand, but Harrison was not armed the day of the shooting.

    “This could have been avoided,” the investigator said stating that in retrospect Harrison and the Alvarado’s could have acted differently.

    In his closing statement, Flores said his client was acting in self defense because Hargill is a crime-ridden town and the family had been victims of a home invasion weeks before.

    Probation Officer Norma Gonzalez said that the teenager was a “very respectful” young man who had benefitted from the structured environment in the juvenile detention facility. But she recommended he be certified as an adult.

    Pedro and Arnoldo Alvarado remain in federal custody alongside Garcia awaiting trial.

    Also facing federal drug conspiracy charges in the case are Julio Armando Davila — a government informant accused of leading a ring of people who stole drug loads from other groups — and Aida Palacios, a former investigator with the Hidalgo County District Attorney’s Office named in a superseding indictment on Wednesday.

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