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Press Release - Customs and Border ProtectionNogales Agents Come Under Fire1135 Pounds of Marijuana SeizedTucson, AZ -- On November 11, 2004, agents assigned to the Nogales Border Patrol Station disrupted drug smugglers as they attempt to drive two drug filled trucks across the international border.At approximately 12:00 p.m., a Border Patrol Agent observed two trucks drive north through the desert across the border near the Buena Vista Ranch, east of Nogales. As the two trucks traveled north away from the border, a third truck joined them. The third truck was being utilized as a scout (lookout) by the drug smugglers.Agents...

Pistol-packing Senior Chases Off Mugger, Gets Charged for Unlicensed Gun By Marcus Solis (Bronx-WABC, November 5, 2003) — A mugger in the Bronx got quite a surprise when the 80-year-old man he attacked in an elevator pulled out a .38 caliber handgun. There was a struggle, a shot was fired, and now the elderly victim is being criminally charged. Marcus Solis is in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx where he talked with the man. Lester Campbell says the gun belonged to his mother, and that it was passed onto him when she died. And he said he would...

Spencer now facing only one charge for incident By Nate Searing Herald/Review SIERRA VISTA -- American Border Patrol President Glenn Spencer will be arraigned in Justice Court 5 in Sierra Vista Tuesday after a being formally charged with felony disorderly conduct last week. Spencer, 66, picked up his summons for the charge from the Cochise County sheriff's office in Sierra Vista on Wednesday. A grand jury indicted him on Aug. 22. The charge stems from an incident on Aug. 1 in which Spencer allegedly fired a gun near his home at Equestrian Avenue and Yaqui Street. The shots, which came...

Shots fired on U.S. forces in Kuwait 10/14/2002 Associated Press KUWAIT - Shots were fired from two civilian vehicles Monday at U.S. forces in a northern Kuwait training area, according to U.S. officials. There were no injuries, they said. The U.S. military unit did not return fire. The shooting occurred at 7:50 a.m., according to a statement by the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait. A military official at Camp Doha, where U.S. forces are stationed in the emirate, confirmed the incident and that nobody was hurt, but would not release any further details. The U.S. military and the Kuwaiti Defense...