DEA Speciat Agent Mike Garbo in an undated photo. - (U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration)(NEW YORK) It has been a particularly perilous week for federal law
DEA Speciat Agent Mike Garbo in an undated photo. - (U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration)(NEW YORK) It has been a particularly perilous week for federal law enforcement. On Monday, DEA Special Agent Michael Garbo, a 16-year veteran of the agency, was shot and killed during an operation in Tucson, Arizona. What started as a routine investigation with DEA agents following up on tips that illegal drugs were being transported on an Amtrak train from California turned deadly as agents closed in on a suspected drug dealer. The Tucson incident was one of three shootings in the past week that left at least 4 agents killed or wounded. As of Oct. 5, 55 law enforcement officers had been killed or wounded so far this year, approaching the five-year high set in 2018. Another agent was also shot but not killed in the operation. On Tuesday an ATF agent was shot and critically wounded in Nashville after a suspect opened fire team of agents looking to arrest him as he sat in his parked in his car ou
DEA Speciat Agent Mike Garbo in an undated photo. - (U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration)(NEW YORK) It has been a particularly perilous week for federal law
amphotora/iStock(WASHINGTON) Pentagon Protection Force Agency Officer George Gonzalez was a beloved son, brother and friend. He was a Yankees fan and a "one of the good guys," according to an obituary shared by the agency. Gonzalez was allegedly killed by a 27-year-old suspect who ambushed him while he was patrolling the Pentagon bus station last week, first stabbing him and then shooting him with his own weapon, according to law enforcement sources. Gonzalez's ambush and the fatal shooting of Chicago Police Officer Ella French, is part of the 47 police officer killings so far in 2021, according to the FBI's Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted Program (LEOKA). That's more than in all of 2020, when there were 46, according to the data. And there have been nearly as many officers killed this year as the entirety of 2019 (48) and 2017 (48). Out of the killings reported this year, 36 have involved a firearm, according to the data. April was the deadlies