June 11, 2008
County wants feds to assume cost, security for wounded Mexican officers
When law officers in northern Mexico are wounded in the line of duty battling the drug cartels, they sometimes end up at the county hospital in El Paso, Texas, under heavy security.

And, the cost of that security provided by the El Paso County Sheriff's Department has some county officials calling for the U.S. federal government to take on the expense and the security.

The latest Mexican police officers to land at Thomason Hospital -- the only Level 1 trauma center for 280 miles around El Paso -- are from Casas Grandes. One was seriously wounded and the other injured a hand, according to reports. It's the second time this year Mexican law officers have been at the hospital under heavy, and expensive, security.

-- Lance Murray

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