AZMEX UPDATE2 30 NOV 2017
UPDATE: Border Patrol agent involved in fatal shooting 'saved partner's life'
Posted: Nov 29, 2017 5:40 PM MST
Updated: Nov 30, 2017 9:15 AM MST
Written By Associated Press
Written By Steve Nunez
http://www.kvoa.com/story/36957499/border-patrol-agent-fatally-shoots-man-in-arizona
U.S. Border Patrol Chief Tucson Sector Rodolfo Karisch
UPDATE: The Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson sector says he believes the action of one of his agents who shot and killed a suspected illegal immigrant Wednesday morning, "saved his partner's life."
During a media-only press briefing, Chief Rodolfo Karisch said a team of two agents confronted a group of illegal immigrants and were in the process of arresting them when one of them attacked an agent.
Karisch said during the struggle the illegal immigrant was able to get on top of the agent and pull his weapon from his holster. That's when the second agent shot the illegal immigrant.
The agents detained three other illegal immigrants in the group, according to Karisch. All three are Guatemalan nationals.
The agent who was assaulted suffered minor injuries.
The fatal shooting is being investigated by the FBI, Tohono O'odham Nation Police and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
No other details were provided.
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TUCSON - Border Patrol officials say an agent has fatally shot a man in a remote area of Arizona.
They say the agent was being assaulted Wednesday by a man in a group of people believed to be in the country illegally.
Further details on the assault weren't immediately available.
Border Patrol officials say the Tucson Sector agent shot the man in the Baboquivari Mountain Range and he later died of his wounds.
Three members of the group have been taken into custody and agents are searching the area for others.
The name of the agent and the man killed haven't been released.
Authorities say the shooting is being investigated by the FBI, Tohono O'odham Nation police and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
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Border agents seize 140 pounds of fentanyl at Arizona border in 2017
BY KEVYN GESSNER/CRONKITE NEWS
NOVEMBER 30, 2017 AT 9:57 AM
http://ktar.com/story/1852995/border-agents-seize-140-pounds-of-fentanyl-at-arizona-border-in-2017/
FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2016, file photo, a bag of 4-fluoro isobutyryl fentanyl which was seized in a drug raid is displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Sterling, Va. Acting United States DEA administrator Chuck Rosenberg will visit China next week amid efforts to cut off the Chinese supply of deadly synthetic drugs, like fentanyl. China disputes U.S. claims that it's the top source of opioids. Still, Beijing has already banned fentanyl, an opioid some 50 times stronger than heroin, and 18 related compounds. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
PHOENIX – Agents have seized 140 pounds of fentanyl at Arizona's ports of entry in 2017, a 600 percent increase from 2016, according to a report from United States Customs and Border Protection.
The report stated 140 pounds is enough to kill 21 million people.
Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Shannon Scheel, Director for Drug Prevention and Education for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, said one of the biggest components of the increase is because Fentanyl can simply be purchased from the black market on the internet.
"All of these items are manufactured – that's why they're called synthetic opioids," Scheel said. "They're not grown from a heroin plant or opium poppies these are synthetic and manufactured. So, it can be easily obtained."
Beth Brady, Crime Lab Director for the Department of Public Safety, said another contribution to the increase of illegal fentanyl is the low price.
"People have switched to heroin, which is cheaper," Brady said. "So now we're just seeing the next step in that process, now people unknowingly are being given fentanyl mixed in with heroin."
Scheel said the reason they lace heroin with fentanyl is to increase the high of the person taking the drug, but the smallest amount of fentanyl can be deadly.
"It takes an amount of just a couple grains of salt to be potentially catastrophic for somebody," Brady said.
Fentanyl is sold in pharmacies in the form of a patch, spray or injection, and is prescribed to people with large amounts of pain like cancer patients.
It's in a much lower dose, and is slowly released into the patient's system throughout a 72-hour period.
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Note: Compared to sentences in parts of the US?
Five people sentenced for transporting drugs and weapons
Details Published on Wednesday, November 29, 2017,
El Diario
http://www.eldiariodesonora.com.mx/notas.php?nota=102069
Hermosillo, Son
The Attorney General of the Republic (PGR) in its Delegation in Sonora, obtained from a Judge of Prosecution of the Federal Criminal Justice Center, conviction for five people, for transporting marijuana and weapons, in Santa Ana, Sonora.
The Deputy Attorney General for Regional Control, Criminal Procedures and Amparo (SCRPPA), reported that the accused must serve a sentence of 22 years in prison, six months and pay a fine of 120 days minimum wage, for being criminally responsible for the crime against health, in the form of transportation of marijuana, transportation of firearms for exclusive use of the Army, with the aggravation of gang affiliation.
According to the criminal case, elements of the Federal Police arrested, in the vicinity of the Federal Highway, stretch Santa Ana - El Ocuca,
José Raúl "N",
Luis Ángel "N",
José Leonardo "N",
Marco Alejandro "N" and a
Gibran Alexis "N",
on board a vehicle with 22 packages containing 200 kilos of marijuana, four long weapons and a short weapon.
The sentenced are in the Federal Center for Social Readaptation Number 11, based in Hermosillo, Sonora, where they serve their sentence.
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