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Teen pleads guilty in violent Border Patrol murder

A 17-year-old has pleaded guilty in the murder of a Border Patrol agent shot eight times in head, neck and torso in July. The U.S. attorney's office in San Diego said Christian Daniel Castro Alvarez entered the plea Friday in federal court. It ...

From ELLIOT SPAGAT, eTaiwan News,  20 Nov 2009

Teen pleads guilty in US border agent killing

A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to killing a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times while chasing suspected illegal immigrants in the mountains east of San Diego. Christian Daniel Castro Alvarez said he lured Agent Robert Rosas out of ...

From ELLIOT SPAGAT, eTaiwan News,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Janet Napolitano,  Federal Bureau of Investigation

Teen pleads guilty in Border Patrol agent killing

SAN DIEGO A 17-year-old pleaded guilty Friday to killing a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times while chasing suspected illegal immigrants in the mountains east of San Diego. Christian Daniel Castro Alvarez said he lured Agent Robert Rosas out ...

From ELLIOT SPAGAT, San Diego Union-Tribune,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Janet Napolitano,  Federal Bureau of Investigation

Teen pleads guilty in Border Patrol slaying

SAN DIEGO A 17-year-old has pleaded guilty to murder in San Diego to the slaying of a Border Patrol agent who was shot eight times in head, neck and torso in July. The U.S. attorney's office said Christian Daniel Castro Alvarez entered the plea Friday ...

From ELLIOT SPAGAT, San Diego Union-Tribune,  20 Nov 2009

Marines, corpsman to be removed in Iraqi death

SAN DIEGO—Three Marines and a Navy man convicted of aiding the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi man have been ordered removed from the military, the Navy said Wednesday. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus issued the ruling more than two years after the ...

From ELLIOT SPAGAT, Boston Globe,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ray Mabus,  Bill Delahunt

Hundreds mourn San Diego man killed at Fort Hood

SAN DIEGO Hundreds of people gathered at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego to remember Army Reserve Capt. John Gaffaney as someone who inspired almost everyone around him – his family, the elderly who he helped protect from abuse, and those ...

From ELLIOT SPAGAT, San Diego Union-Tribune,  14 Nov 2009

Feds: Gun, cash seizures up at Mexican border

SAN DIEGO—U.S. authorities say they are seizing significantly more illicit cash and guns along the Mexican border. Three federal agencies that police the border said Tuesday that $40 million in Mexico-bound cash was seized on the southwest border from ...

From ELLIOT SPAGAT, Boston Globe,  3 Nov 2009

Feds: Guns, cash seizures up at Mexican border

SAN DIEGO - U.S. authorities say they are seizing significantly more illicit cash and guns along the Mexican border. Three federal agencies that police the border announced Tuesday in San Diego that $40 million in Mexico-bound cash was seized on the ...

From ELLIOT SPAGAT, SGVTribune.com,  3 Nov 2009

Mexican family finds work, then loss, in US

Esteban Contreras had a bad feeling when his daughter and her husband said they were going to sneak across the border with their children. He remembers telling his son-in-law: "You're going to put your children's lives in danger. You're going to ...

From ELLIOT SPAGAT, eTaiwan News,  19 Oct 2009

Mexican girl: Smuggler ignored plea to save family

A 13-year-old Mexican girl alleges a human smuggler kicked her in the stomach after ignoring a plea to save her parents and younger brother from a GMC Suburban that overturned into a canal in Southern California. Cecilia Cid-Contreras told jurors ...

From ELLIOT SPAGAT, Taiwan News,  16 Oct 2009

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