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Prosecutions progress in Fast and Furious case
Over the past two years or so, politicians in Washington have focused on what went wrong in the botched gun smuggling investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious and how those failures contributed to the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
Border agents in fatal shooting had radio contact
Three U.S. Border Patrol agents responding to an alarm from a motion sensor were apparently in radio contact as they approached from opposite directions before opening fire on each other in the Arizona desert, leaving one agent dead, according to a sheriff's report released Friday.
Border Patrol agent shot, killed on patrol in Arizona
Agent Nicholas Ivie and a colleague were on patrol in the desert near Naco — about 100 miles from Tucson — when shooting broke out shortly before 2 a.m. Tuesday.
