Thread: Border Patrol agent shot

CAMPO, Calif. U-S Border Patrol officials say one of their agents was shot in the leg this morning.

It happened around 7:45 a-m in the Campo area.

Agent Kurstan Rosberg says the wound is not life-threatening.

The male agent was being transported to a hospital.

The incident is under investigation, and it is unclear what led up to the shooting or who fired the shot.

more on the story:
Manhunt For Border Patrol Shooting Suspect

Last Updated:
06-03-05 at 1:43PM

A manhunt is underway Friday for an armed man who shot a border patrol agent in the leg during a confrontation in southeastern San Diego County, according to officials.

The shooting happened at about 8 a.m. near the intersection of Tierra del Sol Road and Old Highway 80 in the Live Oak Springs area, officials from both the U.S. Border Patrol and the Sheriff's Department.

The wounded agent was taken to a local hospital. He is said to be "doing fine," according to USBP public affairs officer Raul Martinez.

"It appears that he was shot by some type of shotgun in the …calf area," he said.

The suspect left the scene in a truck that officers found a short distance away. The vehicle was reportedly carrying an illicit drug.
http://www.kfmb.com/stories/story.14174.html

11:47 a.m. June 3, 2005



GREGORY ALAN GROSS / Union-Tribune
A Border Patrol agent scans the horizon for signs of the driver of a drug-laden truck who fled after shooting an agent in the leg.
LIVE OAK SPRINGS – A U.S. Border Patrol agent was wounded in the leg by a shotgun blast Friday morning when he tried to intercept a pickup truck loaded with hundreds of pounds of narcotics.
The unidentified agent, who is based in Campo, was taken by ambulance to a hospital. His wounds were not life-threatening, according to a Border Patrol spokesman.

Heavily-armed Border Patrol agents, backed by Sheriff's deputies and California Highway Patrol officers, sealed off an area south of Interstate 8 between Live Oak Springs and Crestwood Road. Officers searched the area with dogs while two Border Patrol helicopters repeatedly swept the canyons alongside Old Highway 80.

The shooting occurred about 8 a.m., according to Border Patrol Agent Raul Martinez. The single occupant of the pickup shot the agent, then drove off in the truck before abandoning the vehicle a short time later and running into the brush.

By the time the gunman left his vehicle, "the truck was riding on its rims," Martinez said.

He said the shooting took place in the Tierra del Sol area near the U.S.-Mexico border, about 60 miles east of San Diego. The area is notorious for both drug and illegal immigrant smuggling.
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AND THE CRADLE WILL ROCK!!!

I've added this story to the ALIPAC homepage. Our BP agents are coming under more fire and hostility every day.

http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=N ... le&sid=445

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It's amazing that this wasn't in the MSM! One could make a convincing argument that they're trying to DOWNPLAY this incident.