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.
Just your average white canuck, I’m sure
Took a while for this break, no?
Can I take a guess????
Glad the BP Agent is okay and at least two of these people are in custody. Nice work!
He Fired?? How soon before the arrest and perp walk of this guy...
"Can I take a guess????"
It is certainly convenient that the Spokesman cannot release the names and doesn't know the nationalities. I they were the feared Amish, would that information be all over the net?
It’s also good to know that we can count on Canadian authorities to do what they can to find the suspect on their side of the border.
Ok, he did not know their Nationality, But I worked as a Police Dispatcher.
We asked the following questions: What were they wearing
Height Approx weight
Skin color (if you could see it.
Did they speak with and accent??
Glasses,
The following are some description questions you may be asked: gender, race, age, clothing descriptions (from head to toe), physical descriptions (such as tattoos, hair color, birthmarks, etc)
ETC ETC ETC... Lots of ways to figure out more about these folks.
Yeah, so they can have a complaining witness at the trial where they put the border patrol officer away for twenty years.
Possibly......North African yoots?
‘Mohammed Doright’ was released on lack of evidence...
Canadians, eh? Sneaking in? Yah, fer sure.
Damn snowbacks!
The fleeing suspect was the mayor of Toronto, he sneaks down into the US, buys guns, takes them back to Toronto, hands them out to gang members, in turn the gang members use the guns in crimes in Toronto, then the mayor gets on the TV and goes on about the gun violence problems because of US guns and how all the fancy gun control laws will stop this...
Self propagating bureaucracy !
{/sarcasm
Why not? Maybe because they have Middle Eastern-sounding names?
Pesky Canadians! Next thing you know they are going to show up on my doorstep offering to mow my grass for a couple of beers, eh. Think we need to call out the Vermont National Guard.
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