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Documents show that on Dec. 14, 2010, Terry's team was on a hill above a ravine. A ground sensor went off alerting them to the approaching smugglers. When agents yelled "police" in Spanish, the smugglers turned and fired. According to the documents, this happened at 11:08 p.m. Just 52 minutes later, Terry would have been relieved by a second BORTAC team and gone home for Christmas. "I saw some members of the group point their weapons at us," Agent Gabriel Fragoza declared to the court. "Agent Castano and I deployed less lethal bean bag rounds as the individuals began to...

"A Cameron man is still behind bars after firing at least 17 shots in and around his Steuben County Mobile home. All this after a nearly three-hour standoff in the Riverview Trailer Park on County Route 22 that could have ended tragically. Investigators say at least one of the 17 shots fired by 34 year-old Larry Schoonover was fired in the direction of police who had surrounded him and evacuated the area. Investigators say Schoonover never put down his shotgun, and at one point even asking authorities to shoot him. However authorities didn't use real bullets, instead they used a...