Mexico Apologizes for Flying Chopper Into U.S., Firing on Border Patrol Agents

Report: Mexican Military Chopper Crosses Into US, Shoots At Border Agents (CBS - Los Vegas)

TUCSON, Ariz. (CBS Las Vegas) — Border Patrolagents in Arizona were reportedly fired upon by a Mexican military helicopter that traveled across the border.

KVOA-TV reports that Mexican authorities were conducting a drug interdiction operation when the incident happened early Thursday morning on the Tohono O’odham Indian Nation. The Mexican chopper fired at the agents and then flew back into Mexico.

Art del Cueto, Border Patrol Tucson Sector union president, tells KVOA that they called and apologized for the incident.