News From the Border: Man shot and wounded by border agent identified

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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Man shot and wounded by border agent identified

DAVID L. TEIBEL

Published: 02.21.2007

A man shot and wounded by a U.S. Border Patrol agent this morning in Rio Rico has been tentatively identified as Fernando Ramos Cholio, 30.

He is being held under law enforcement at a Tucson Hospital with non-life threatening wounds and could face charges of threatening and assaulting a federal agent, Santa Cruz County Sheriff Antonio Estrada said this afternoon.

Estrada said the wounded man gave deputies a name, but, "sometimes, if they're here illegally, they'll give us false names."

The suspect carried no identification, Estrada added.

Labels: Border Patrol, Illegal Crossing