Authorities face tough territory in border probe

Hours after a U.S. border patrol agent was shot and killed, and another was shot and injured, border patrol agents stand in front of a border patrol vehicle in front of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Patrol Station Tuesday, in Bisbee, Ariz.

NACO, Ariz. (AP) — Investigators searching a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border for clues into the fatal shooting of a Border Patrol agent face a treacherous territory that is heavily used by drug smugglers, offers many hiding places and is close enough to Mexico for traffickers to make a qu...

Published: 10/04/2012