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Point Blank: Border Patrol Agent Holds Loaded Gun To Boy Scouts Head, Troop Leader Says (Video)

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By Josey Wales

A Boy Scout troop from central Iowa just returned from a three week trip they will not soon forget.

 

10 days into their trip, an innocent action by one of the nearly two dozen Boy Scouts at the Canadian border into Alaska caused a border patrol agent to pull his loaded weapon and pointed it point blank at the boy’s head.

 

 

 

Boy Scout Troop 111 Leader Jim Fox spelled out what happened to him and the Mid-Iowa Boy Scout Troop 111 as four van-loads of Scouts and adult volunteers tried to drive from Canada into Alaska.

 

Fox said one of the Scouts took a picture of a border official, which spurred agents to detain everyone in that van and search them and their belongings.

 

“The agent immediately confiscated his camera, informed him he would be arrested, fined possibly $10,000 and 10 years in prison,” Fox said.

 

Fox said he was told it is a federal offense to take a picture of a federal agent.

 

Not wanting things to escalate, Fox said he did not complain.

 

Another of the Scouts was taking luggage from the top of a van to be searched when something startling happened.

 

“He hears a snap of a holster, turns around, and here’s this agent, both hands on a loaded pistol, pointing at the young man’s head,” Fox explained.

 

Fox said that had them all in fear.

 

Ultimately no one was hurt or arrested, and after about four hours they were allowed to continue their trip into Alaska.

 

When he thinks about what happened to them and the fact there are people streaming across the southern border, Fox is outraged.

 

Charles Vonderheid with the Mid-Iowa Council Boy Scouts of America said Troop 11 learned a valuable lesson.

 

“We want to make sure they follow the rules. A Scout is a good citizen. It would be a great lesson in civics for that young man and that troop,” he said.

 

The Scouts arrived home late Sunday from their 23-day trip.

  

There were 17 other Scouts and three other volunteers on the trip. As of now KCCI has not been able to make contact with any of the Scouts.

 

Frankly the statement made by Charles Vonderheid are troubling. Since when is having a gun pointed at your head a good lesson in civics? This border patrol agent should be fired, or suspended at the very least. Police state USA!

 

If our border patrol used this kind of force on our southern borders, we wouldn’t have a border crisis right now.

 

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    • Anonymous

      Quote:Frankly the statement made by Charles Vonderheid are troubling. Since when is having a gun pointed at your head a good lesson in civics? This border patrol agent should be fired, or suspended at the very least. Police state USA!
      What I would like to know. Was this border patrol agent speaking spanish, yidish or hebrew???

    • GuitarLots

      We had an expression for that guy in high school … RETARDED DUFUS DIP SH!T

    • gsummit

      When did it become a law that no one could take a picture of a federal agent. I’m not saying that it doesn’t exist. If there is a law that says this everyone should take pictures of all the park rangers. Oh, that’s right they do.

    • StarRyder

      Jeepers…I’m a Canadian and yet I can tell you, NO LAW exists forbidding the taking of pictures or film of federal agents. It would be impossable to enforce, consider park rangers, or secret service when the President goes by in his limo, you can’t help but get agents in the frame. It just makes no sense to have such a law.

      But now the pointing of the gun at the kid. When you are detained at customs for a secondary search. The agents doing that are not the ones who sent you in for the search, they simply have a little note saying do a secondary level so and so search. YOU, and YOUR passengers are to exit the vehicle and go into the waiting area while the search in performed, you are NOT allowed to unload, or remove anything from the vehicle…JUST YOURSELVES…there’s a darn good reason for that. The kid going up on the roof rack to the border agent COULD have been trying to HIDE something or get a weapon….thats a really bad move. In this case the agents actions were spot on and correct. Just because someone is dressed like a Nun don’t make her a good person, same as just because someone is dressed like a boy scout.

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