A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent and a suspected smuggler died during a shootout Thursday off the Puerto Rico coast, authorities said. Other U.S. officers were injured.
CBP said in a statement that three agents were injured and were being airlifted to the Puerto Rico Trauma CenterA U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent and a suspected smuggler died during a shootout Thursday off theCBP's Air and Marine Operations unit was on routine patrol when the shots were fired about 12 miles off the coast from Cabo Rojo, a major drug smuggling corridor for cocaine coming out of South America known as the Mona Passage.
in Puerto Rico. He said it was too early to know where the vessel originated from, the nationality of its two passengers and whether it was carrying narcotics or servicing another suspected drug vessel in the Caribbean.Sign up for NBC Chicago newsletters. Typically, drug cartels recruit poor fishermen from Colombia and Venezuela to transport large amounts of cocaine northward to the Dominican Republic where it is broken down into smaller bales and transferred at sea to waiting vessels manned by better-paid, sometimes well-armed Puerto Rican drug runners.
CBP said in a statement that three agents were injured and were being airlifted to the Puerto Rico Trauma Center. That initial statement did not indicate anyone was killed.said in testimony before a Senate committee that an Air and Marine Operations agent was killed and several other agents were “gravely wounded.”
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