Posted on 07/07/2008 1:19:32 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
SWANTON, Vt. -- The U.S. Border Patrol says an agent shot at three suspects after being assaulted near the Vermont-Quebec border early today.
The agency said the officer was interviewing the three who were on foot at about 2:15 a.m. when he was assaulted. The agent fired two shots.
A male and female suspect are in custody. The third suspect, a male, escaped back into Canada.
The Border Patrol said it doesn't know if the missing suspect was armed or if he was wounded.
Border Patrol Spokesman Mark Henry said the agent was on routine patrol when he spotted the suspects. The suspects knocked the agent down and started hitting him when he fired his weapon.
Henry said he couldn't release the names of the suspects in cusody. He did not know their nationalities.
Last summer, a Border Patrol agent in Alburgh fired his weapon at a car that had illegally entered the country after the driver tried to run him over. There have been no arrests in that case.
The Border Patrol is working with its federal, state, local, and Canadian law enforcement partners in order to locate the subject. Anyone who may have pertinent information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Border Patrol at Sector Headquarters in Swanton, Vt. The phone number is 1-800-247-2434.
Probably just Minnesotans trying to get a couple
extra Walleyes across the border.
I guess he will be going to prison.
Shame the agent was not able to drill clean holes in all three of their heads with his pistol fire.
I guess I forgot my sarc tag.
As far as better pot, well, I will have to take your word for it.
Usually less dangerous than Mexico? I dunno, looks like it is pretty dangerous now. And if from the South, the Mexican Army will escort you, providing cover if you are discovered. . . .that is if you are smuggling your smokes, not that I am saying you are, mind you.
ping
Chinese or Muslims of some stripe are the perps. My guess
Mexican army might try to renegotiate the deal. Peso falls with the dollar. Just speculating that smuggling was probably the reason to cross the border. Anybody not carrying contraband could just get in line and waltz across.
Which of course, leads one to believe they don’t WANT anyone to know what their nationality was-—
susie
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