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November 21, 2019

Ex-Border Patrol Agent Sentenced to Probation for Running Over Migrant
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Meanwhile, a federal judge in Tucson sentenced former Arizona Border
Patrol agent Matthew Bowen Wednesday to three years of supervised
release and an $8,000 fine for intentionally running over a Guatemalan
migrant with a pickup truck in 2017 - and then falsifying records about
the assault. The man he struck, Antolin Rolando López-Aguilar, survived.
Court filings show Bowen had sent a slew of racist text messages on his
phone, referring to immigrants as "mindless murdering savages" and
"beaners," among other insults.


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