Mexico Apologizes After Helicopter Flies Into US, Shoots Near Patrol Officers Ed Adamczyk - UPI
go to original June 27, 2014

The Mexican helicopter crossed the U.S. border in Arizona. (Wikimedia.org/ W.C. Poon)

CNN Update: Tomas Zeron, director of the Mexican attorney general's investigative office, offered a different story: read it here.

Mexican law enforcement officials apologized Friday for firing shots in the direction of U.S. agents from a helicopter that strayed over the border.

The incident occurred early Thursday morning, U.S. Border Patrol spokeswoman Vivian McLoughlin confirmed.

The helicopter traveled about 100 yards into U.S. territory during an anti-drug operation, fired two shots at the ground near the presence of U.S. agents on Arizona's Tohono O'odham Indian Nation, which abuts Mexico on the U.S. side of the border, then returned to Mexican airspace.

No one was injured, and the U.S. agents were not injured. Mexican authorities, who did not offer details regarding for whom they were searching, called U.S. authorities and acknowledged the mistake, a U.S. law enforcement official said.

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