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Two U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents were injured and a third was killed during an early Thursday morning high seas shootout with suspected smugglers 14 miles off Puerto Rico’s ...
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent and a suspected smuggler were dead Friday after a shootout off Puerto Rico’s coast, authorities said.
Hurricane Maria was an extremely powerful and deadly Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that devastated the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which accounted for 2,975 of the 3,059 deaths. [1][2] It is the deadliest and costliest hurricane to strike the island of Puerto Rico, and is the ...
Michael DeBruhl was a border patrol agent and sector chief in a 26-year career with the agency. He started as a border patrol agent back in 1989, patrolling the Rio Grande in Texas, and his career ...
Filiberto Ojeda Ríos. Filiberto Ojeda Ríos (April 26, 1933 – September 23, 2005) was a Puerto Rican independence activist who cofounded the Boricua Popular Army, also known as Los Macheteros, and its predecessor, the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña (FALN). [1][2][3][4][5] In 1990, Ojeda Ríos became a fugitive of the ...
Border Patrol agents claimed that there was a mob that pelted them with rocks. [81] For his involvement in the incident, Border Patrol agent Jesus Mesa, Jr., invoked qualified immunity in his defense. [82] In February 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Hernandez family may not bring suit against the agent, highlighting the 1971 case ...
Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico on September 20 as a high-end Category 4 storm, bringing a large storm surge, very heavy rains, and wind gusts well above 100 mph (160 km/h). It flattened neighborhoods, crippled the island's power grid, and caused an estimated 2,982 fatalities and US$90 billion in damage.
Two U.S. National Guard members and a Border Patrol agent were killed and a fourth person was injured when a helicopter went down near Rio Grande City, Texas, on Friday, officials said.