TAKEPLACE: RISKS HEIGHTEN FOR FEDERAL AGENTS

Sunday, February 20, 2011

RISKS HEIGHTEN FOR FEDERAL AGENTS

The shooting deaths of two federal agents last week and three in two months highlight the heightened risk to federal investigators who are confronting increasingly violent fugitives, drug traffickers and other criminals, authorities said.

The killing of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Mexico on Tuesday was followed by the slaying of a deputy U.S. marshal in West Virginia on Wednesday, an unusual confluence of events that left officials deeply troubled. A Border Patrol agent was fatally shot in Arizona in December. TWP

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