Border Patrol issues 'safety alert' over call to find and torture agents
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The U.S. Border Patrol has placed agents on high alert after its intelligence office uncovered a plot to obtain the home addresses of agents for the purpose of "torturing" federal law enforcement, including their family members, the Washington Examiner has learned.
The FBI has opened an investigation into troubling text message solicitations that request information that the sender promised will be used to target agents, according to a screenshot shared exclusively with the Washington Examiner Tuesday evening.
"We will pay for any addresses of Border Patrol agents!! $200 your way if you get me a border patrol agent's address. $1K if you get me they mommas address," the text messages state, according to a screenshot. "We offer $$$ for information on BP agents. Top dollar on good info. I'll post us torturing any bp agent u send [sic]."
The threats were reported within Border Patrol and prompted an email warning from the El Paso regional office Tuesday.
"On October 10, 2023, the El Paso Sector Intelligence and Operations Center (EPT-IOC) received information regarding a threatening message concerning Border Patrol Agents (BPA)," the Border Patrol letter to agents states.
"Las Cruces FBI agents encountered a message in where a subject is offering money to anyone who can provide addresses of BPAs," the warning continued. "The sender offered a higher compensation amount for the addresses of any agents' mother and/or 'Top dollar' for good information on agents. The sender stated he would post them torturing any BPA they send information on."
The warning stated that the FBI was "actively working" on the matter.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the federal agency that manages the Border Patrol, did not provide a comment about the safety threat against agents.
Border Patrol called on agents to "remain cognizant of their surrounding at all times and report any suspicious activity" to supervisors.
Officials in Texas and Washington said internal rumors that Mexican cartels are behind the messages have not been confirmed, but the FBI was looking at one suspect. The FBI did not respond to a request for comment.
The National Border Patrol Council did not provide a comment.
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Wow. Seems almost too ridiculous not to be a hoax, but it's still something they have to take seriously.
We have 14 BP agents and their families living in our neighborhood. Picked up the mail this a.m. and two of the agents were picking up theirs, so I asked them if this was true.
Their response was that this info is weeks old and all of the agents here in the Las Cruces area have been put on alert and strongly advised to be aware of their surroundings and that their families should also be on their toes.
These threats are not new - but, they have gotten bolder.
Reminds me of some of the crap we had to put up with in southern Florida during our drug-interdiction days. Yeah, we had targets on our backs and, yeah, we were put on high levels of alert.
It can be scary.
Vote Republican to defund the FBI and DOJ.
Nope, but to root out and prosecute the Democrat spies and traitors.
Please stay on topic.