DEA: Brush with state police mistaken for attempted kidnapping in Juarez
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February 26, 2011 7:49 PM
Jared Taylor

A Drug Enforcement Administration agent operating in Ciudad Juarez, Chih., was followed by state police conducting a homicide investigation, an agency official said Saturday.

The DEA agent in Ciudad Juarez was driving a vehicle with U.S. diplomatic plates when he came upon the homicide investigation Thursday morning, a DEA official told The Monitor.

An initial report in The Brownsville Herald, quoting an unnamed official close to law enforcement, said agents feared the encounter was an attempted kidnapping involving as many as three vehicles.

But further investigation by the U.S. State Department and Chihuahua state police officials revealed officers were following the agent — not suspected kidnappers.

“There was an incident where an agent thought he was trying to be stopped, but a follow-up investigation has revealed it was Chihuahua state police that were stopping him,â€