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| Title: | US TX: Drug Traffickers Set Bounty On Agents |
| Published On: | 2000-02-12 |
| Source: | Washington Post (DC) |
| Fetched On: | 2008-09-05 03:57:06 |
DRUG TRAFFICKERS SET BOUNTY ON AGENTS
EL PASO, Feb. 11 - Drug traffickers are offering a $200,000 bounty for the
murder of U.S. federal agents along the Mexican border, a Border Patrol
official said Friday.
A spokesman for the Border Patrol office in the southwestern Texas town of
Marfa confirmed a KTSM television report that agents in the Marfa region
had been warned in an internal memo of the threat.
"It's a credible threat and it extends all along the U.S border," spokesman
George Swank said.
EL PASO, Feb. 11 - Drug traffickers are offering a $200,000 bounty for the
murder of U.S. federal agents along the Mexican border, a Border Patrol
official said Friday.
A spokesman for the Border Patrol office in the southwestern Texas town of
Marfa confirmed a KTSM television report that agents in the Marfa region
had been warned in an internal memo of the threat.
"It's a credible threat and it extends all along the U.S border," spokesman
George Swank said.
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