3 US Customs agents shot, wounded off coast of Puerto Rico
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on"Worldwide Threats to the Homeland", at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. – A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent and a suspected smuggler died during a shootout Thursday off the Puerto Rico coast, authorities said. Two other U.S. officers were injured.
One of the agents was later pronounced dead. The agent's identity was not immediately released and the condition of the other two agents was not immediately clear. 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.
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