Was Cartel Shooting in Arizona a Hoax?

From the Arizona Republic:

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu announced Monday that he is reopening the investigation into the April shooting of a deputy and asking the state Department of Public Safety to conduct lab tests on the shirt Louie Puroll was wearing when he purportedly was wounded during an exchange of gunfire with drug smugglers.

Puroll told detectives he was ambushed April 30 by marijuana smugglers in the desert southwest of Casa Grande and suffered a flesh wound to his side.

The suspects were never found despite a search by about 200 law officers. That and other aspects of Puroll’s account prompted questions into whether the shooting was a hoax. Read more.

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