Investigators have completed
their work at the scene of the Border Patrol shooting in which one agent
died and another was wounded last week. By Saturday, investigators had reopened the area, a rough hillside
about six miles east of Bisbee, that is fully accessible only by foot or
horseback. The FBI investigation continues, as does a related investigation by the Cochise County Sheriff's Office. On Friday, the FBI announced that there are strong indications that
Agent Nicholas Ivie, 30, died in a friendly-fire incident about 1:30
a.m. Tuesday. Acting Sheriff Rodney Rothrock told The Arizona Republic that,
while he will submit findings and a report to the County Attorney's
Office for review, "I don't anticipate, personally, that the county
attorney's office is going to take any action in this matter (against
the wounded agent or another uninjured agent). ... To be guilty of
committing a crime, you have to have intent or operate knowingly or
recklessly or with negligence. "I don't think the culpable state of mind was there. These agents
believed they were in danger and acted appropriately to that danger,"
Rothrock said. Meanwhile, in Agua Prieta, across the border from Douglas, Ariz., a
Mexican federal police official said that two Mexicans who initially had
been suspected of involvement in the shooting have been questioned and
are now in custody in Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora. The official, who declined to give his name when interviewed in Agua
Prieta, said that the two men, cousins from Agua Prieta, were caught
with a .38 caliber revolver and large packages of marijuana several
miles south of the U.S. border roughly 15 hours after Ivie was killed. The Mexican ambassador in Washington, D.C., had described the men as
suspects in the shooting but has not provided an update on whether they
are still considered suspects...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Sunday, October 07, 2012
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