Border Patrol agents in shootout near Nogales
Crime • September 2010 • Views: 530
Border Patrol agents came under fire Sunday evening near Nogales but were not injured.
The incident occurred at about 6 p.m. Sunday when agents were walking in the Bellota Canyon, located west of Nogales about five miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, said Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada. Three to four armed men started shooting at them.
The agents were not hit, and returned fire, Estrada said. None of the agents was hurt. And authorities don’t believe any of the armed men were hit either.
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