Texas father, son sentenced for shooting agent

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McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A South Texas man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and his son to 16 years for the 2012 shooting of a federal agent on drug-patrol duty.

Forty-three-year-old Pedro Alvarado and 20-year-old Arnoldo Alvarado were sentenced Thursday in federal court for injuring Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Kelton Harrison. The Hargill (HAR’-gil) men were convicted in March of assaulting a federal officer and a weapons crime.

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