The Associated Press
December 19, 2013 Updated 1 hour ago

SAN DIEGO — A 45-year-old Mexican national has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for his role in the shooting death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was lured into a trap to steal his night-vision goggles.

Federal prosecutors say Jose Ramirez Dorantes received the sentence Thursday in federal court in San Diego after reaching a plea deal. He's the third of five defendants in the case to be sentenced.

Rodriguez-Perez pleaded guilty to conspiracy to rob an officer and aiding and abetting a violent crime while carrying a firearm.

He was one of two people who stood watch from Mexico while two other men entered the U.S. through a border fence hole to rob Agent Robert Rosas of his night-vision goggles.

When Rosas resisted, he was shot and killed.

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