Thread: Two commit suicide after chase by bp at Az checkpoint

Two dead after fleeing Border Patrol checkpoint
May 14th, 2008 @ 11:59am
by KTAR Newsroom

A chase that started at a Border Patrol checkpoint near Yuma ended with two suspects shooting themselves on Interstate 10 west of Casa Grande Wednesday morning.

Pinal County sheriff's officers and the Border Patrol, and possibly other law enforcement agencies, were involved in the chase.

Mario Escalante with the Border Patrol said the incident started at a checkpoint along the Arizona-Mexico border near Yuma when the suspects were told to pull over to a secondary checkpoint so a drug-sniffing dog could check their vehicle.

``The driver failed to listen to the agent at the checkpoint and took off from the checkpoint," Escalante said. ``Our agents followed at a controlled speed just to see where the vehicle was going."

At some point, other agencies joined the chase and the vehicle was stopped after tire spikes were placed in the roadway near Stanfield, he said.

Mike Minter of the Pinal County Sheriff's Office said deputies surrounded the vehicle as it stopped.

``Officers heard two shots, approached the vehicle and found the suspects inside had shot themselves," Minter said.

Escalante and Minter said no law enforcement officers fired shots.


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Bummer, but glad our BP wasn't hurt.

The comment I want to make is not PC, so I will shut up on this one. LOL!

"Two dead after fleeing Border Patrol checkpoint"

Another misleading headline.
It should have read "Two commit suicide after fleeing Border Patrol checkpoint"

The media loves to insinuate wrong doing by BP agents!

Guns, possible drugs? They must have really been in deep to be that desperate.

Sounds like foreign agents or suicide bombers. Regular illegal aliens would not shoot themselves over a BP apprehension.

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2 dead after 130-mile chase
by Astrid Galvan - May. 14, 2008 01:45 PM
The Arizona Republic

Two men who died of self-inflicted wounds after a 136-mile pursuit might have been responsible for a carjacking in Grand Canyon on Monday.

Several agencies, including the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, the Arizona Department of Public Safety and Pinal County Sheriff's Office responded to a vehicle pursuit on Interstate 8 that began around 10 a.m. Wednesday.

The chase began when the suspects pulled up to a checkpoint near Wellton, said Jesus L. Rodriguez, supervisory Border Patrol agent. When they were asked to pull over for further inspection, they fled in the vehicle.

Maricopa County Sheriff's spokesman Deputy Doug Matteson said the chase continued down Interstate 8 into Pinal County, where it stopped near Stanfield Road.

Deputies and agents surrounded the vehicle, a white Dodge Caliber. Soon after, they heard two gunshots come from the car.

They later found the two suspects dead of self-inflicted wounds, Pinal County Sheriff's spokesman Michael Minter said.

Minter said the vehicle fits the description of the one taken at the Grand Canyon, but it had a different license plate.

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There's definitely more to this story!

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Sounds like foreign agents or suicide bombers. Regular illegal aliens would not shoot themselves over a BP apprehension.

Most likely why the word "Suicide" was left out of the story title.

Yea, there's more!

I AGREE. THERE IS MORE TO THE STORY. WHAT THE ARTICLE DOES NOT SAY IS IF ANYTHING WAS FOUND IN THE TRUCK.

Grand Canyon car thieves allegedly kill themselves
May 14th, 2008 @ 2:29pm
by KTAR Newsroom; Associated Press

STANFIELD, Ariz. - Authorities said two men who led law enforcement agents on a lengthy pursuit on Interstate 8 Wednesday morning killed themselves after their car was disabled.

Pinal County Sheriff's spokesman Mike Minter said officers approaching the white Dodge Caliber after it was disabled by spike strips heard gunshots.

"Officers heard two shots, approached the vehicle and found the suspects inside had shot themselves," Minter said.

Minter said authorities suspect the dead men are brothers from Virginia who have been sought since they carjacked a couple and took their white Dodge at the Grand Canyon Monday night.

Wednesday's incident began when the men were stopped at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint near Welton.

Minter said agents became suspicious and ordered the men to pull over for additional inspection, but they took off and led officers on a 130-mile chase that ended about 30 miles south of Phoenix.

The driver kept going for about a mile before the car veered off the Interstate and hit a small tree.

After shots were heard, officers backed off until agents in helicopters determined both men appeared to be dead. Minter said a robot was being brought in Wednesday afternoon to make sure the car wasn't booby-trapped.

Officers from the National Park Service had been searching for Travis N. ``T-Bo'' Twiggs, 36, and Willard ``Will'' Twiggs, 38, since two men stole a car at gunpoint from two people Monday night at the grand Canyon National Park. The men had crashed their own car several hours earlier but walked away carrying backpacks.

Minter said officers suspect the Twiggs are the men inside the car but will have to wait until it is secured to get confirmation .


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