Thread: AZ: Border Patrol Shooting Sends Suspected Smuggler to Hospi

Border Patrol Shooting Sends Suspected Smuggler to Hospital

Posted: Jan 24, 2008 12:01 PM PST


Mark Stine KOLD News 13 Reporter

It started as a routine traffic stop here on Highway 191 just outside Douglas. It ended with one man shot and a lot of questions.

Border Patrol says their agent pulled over a Chevy Silverado Thursday morning, believed to be transporting illegal immigrants.

Cochise County investigators say when the agent went up to the truck, the driver tried to drive away, somehow trapping the agent with the truck door.

The agent was dragged 20 feet before firing one shot hitting the drivers leg.

The driver, identified as 29-year-old Luis Sanchez-Barron of Hermosillo, was taken by helicopter to University Medical Center in Tucson for treatment.

Rob Daniels with the Border Patrol said, "The first priority is to get any individual that may be injured to medical treatment."

The agent was treated in Douglas with minor injuries.

The four people still in the truck were taken to the Border Patrol station in Douglas and questioned.

The incident near Douglas comes on the heels of a Border Patrol agent killed last weekend after being hit by a suspected smugglers vehicle.

"It's a reminder of the potential of risk that's involved with this job day in and day out," Daniels told KOLD.

Cochise County investigators will continue their investigation, while Border Patrol officials say they'll also conduct an internal investigation on the shooting.

Daniels added, "Time will tell what exactly did happen. The series of events that led up to the officer involved shooting."

The agent involved in the shooting is on paid administrative leave pending an investigation, which is usual in a shooting situation like this.

http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=7769336

Get Johnny Sutton on the case, we can't allow a border agent to do such a dastardly thing!!! He probably scratched the smugglers car when he ALLOWED them to drag him with their car!! Then he shot this poor "immigrant" just coming to America to do jobs Americans won't do! Someone tell the idiot bush to get his "pal" investigating this!!!

Here comes Johnny Sutton and Presidente Boosh to the resque

Gosh they can kill our guys but we can't touch them. Better get some money to this guy fast for a good attorney.

Published: 01.24.2008

Border Patrol agent shoots man during traffic stop near Douglas
By Brady McCombs

ARIZONA DAILY STAR
A U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and injured a 29-year-old Mexican man Thursday morning near Douglas after the man tried to flee in his truck after a traffic stop.
The incident occurred about 9:30 a.m. Thursday about nine miles north of the U.S.-Mexican border on Highway 191 when a Border Patrol agent stopped and questioned five people in a 1999 Chevy truck, said Carol Capas, Cochise County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman. The agent made the stop because he said the truck’s license plate number matched that of a truck seen loading up a group of illegal entrants earlier, Capas said.
As the agent began talking with the group, the driver, Luis Sanchez-Barron, 29, of Hermosillo, Mexico, started to drive away, she said. While holding on to the passenger side door, the agent fired a single round from his duty weapon. The bullet struck Sanchez-Barron in the leg, bringing the truck to a stop a short distance away, she said.
Sheriffs deputies and emergency medical personnel arrived to the scene and airlifted Sanchez-Barron to University Medical Center in Tucson. He was in fair condition Thursday afternoon, said hospital spokeswoman Lori Maré.
His identification card showed he lives in Hermosillo but authorities have not yet determined if he is an illegal entrant, Capas said.
The agent, whose name and age weren’t being released, was taken to Southeast Medical Center in Douglas to receive treatment for cuts and abrasions suffered when he fell from the fleeing vehicle, Capas said. His injuries are not serious.
The other four passengers in the vehicle — all suspected illegal border crossers — were taken into the Border Patrol station and are being questioned by Cochise County Sheriff’s deputies.
The Sheriff’s Office and federal authorities are handling the investigation.

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/222052

Maybe we should go ahead and start raising money for his legal defense fund now.

Originally Posted by camilleinchicago

Maybe we should go ahead and start raising money for his legal defense fund now.

It's shameful that anyone should ever have to think about a defense fund for our BP agents when they're just doing the job they were hired to do.

Originally Posted by cvangel

Originally Posted by camilleinchicago

Maybe we should go ahead and start raising money for his legal defense fund now.

It's shameful that anyone should ever have to think about a defense fund for our BP agents when they're just doing the job they were hired to do.

See the movie "No Country for Old Men". It explains a lot about what this country has become.