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04-17-10, 03:06 PM
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Officer-Involved Shooting Closes Lanes At Border Crossing.
Officer-Involved Shooting Closes Lanes At Border Crossing.By Amy Isackson
April 17, 2010 SAN DIEGO An officer-involved shooting has partially shut down northbound lanes at the San Ysidro Border Crossing. The international liaison for the Baja California Attorney General's office, Jesus Quinones, says preliminary information indicates a Customs and Border Protection agent fired seven shots at an Avalanche vehicle after the driver disobeyed the agent's order to stop the vehicle. Quinones says the driver was rushed to a San Diego hospital. Quinones says there were drugs in the car. He says three northbound lanes remain closed, lanes 22 through 24. US Customs and Border Protection spokesman Vince Bond says the shooting happened just before 9 a.m. He says the driver was alone in the car. He says a CBP agent apparently shot the male driver after he'd crossed the border. Bond said he could not provide more details due to the San Diego Police Homicide team's investigation. |
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04-17-10, 04:11 PM
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Re: Officer-Involved Shooting Closes Lanes At Border Crossing.
A lesson well learned. Even if you get annoyed by the customs guys, just remeber, they apparently have orders to shoot.
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04-17-10, 04:51 PM
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Man shot, hurt at San Diego County border crossing (AP)
 AP - Federal officers shot and injured a man at the nation's busiest border crossing Saturday after he sped away from a gate agent and rammed a pickup while crossing into San Diego County from Mexico, authorities said. The shooting by two U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents occurred about 8:50 a.m at the San Ysidro Point of Entry, said San Diego Police Lt. Kevin Rooney. The man drove up to a gate in a Chevrolet Tahoe and told a customs inspector he didn't have any official identification. After offering some nonofficial documentation, the man was directed to a secondary inspection area. Rooney said the driver accelerated up a departure lane, rammed a Ford pickup and crashed into concrete barriers as he tried to get into the northbound lanes of Interstate 5. Agents on foot converged on the Tahoe and opened the door, trying to drag the driver out. The suspect drove in reverse, striking an agent with the Tahoe's open door. The agent fired at the driver as he sped backward. A second agent opened fire and the driver crashed into the barrier again and stopped, Rooney said. The suspect suffered one gunshot wound and was hospitalized under guard, Rooney said. The injury was not considered life threatening. The man was not identified. He was described as in his 50s. It was unclear if he'll be prosecuted federally or locally, Rooney said. The truck he was driving was reported stolen in Colorado, Rooney said. No agents were injured and nobody in the pickup was hurt, Rooney said. The San Ysidro Point of Entry connects San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. About 40,000 vehicles cross into the United States at the port each day, and it has 24 northbound lanes. Three of the lanes were briefly closed while police investigated. In September, several people were injured after the drivers of three vans filled with dozens of suspected illegal immigrants reportedly tried to storm through the border crossing and federal agents opened fire. More... |
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04-17-10, 05:04 PM
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Re: Man shot, hurt at San Diego County border crossing (AP)
Guess us tax payers will now have to provide free room and board for yet another one.........
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04-18-10, 08:13 AM
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Re: Officer-Involved Shooting Closes Lanes At Border Crossing.
That was a dumb move. How did he think he was going to get a stolen vehicle across the border?
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04-18-10, 11:11 AM
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Re: Officer-Involved Shooting Closes Lanes At Border Crossing.
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04-18-10, 11:01 PM
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04-19-10, 08:13 PM
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04-20-10, 10:47 AM
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Re: Officer-Involved Shooting Closes Lanes At Border Crossing.
A Purse Snatcher??
 Karma out of whack here!
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04-20-10, 10:56 AM
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Re: Officer-Involved Shooting Closes Lanes At Border Crossing.
my feeling is you run your guilty. bang bang
you don't speak English oh well you just enter the US and that is our language. hey in Mexico someone is not gonna yell at you STOP STOP no they are gonna say ALTO ALTO and then banga banga that will you will ALTO right |
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04-21-10, 11:08 AM
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Re: Officer-Involved Shooting Closes Lanes At Border Crossing.
I would not be the least bit surprised to hear that sometime in the near future they will be installing those huge hydraulic pistons in each lane at the border. Seems like an easier way to prevent this kind of problem. I wonder how many vehicles actually attempt this trick per year at the borders?
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