Border Patrol Agent’s Conviction for Civil Rights Violation against Smuggler Reversed

Carolyn Hileman* | February 5, 2007

David Sipe is a once convicted criminal who can honestly say he “didn’t do it.” “Relief. Relief. After 7 years, it’s gone. It’s over.” The ex-border patrol agent gets a 2001 guilty verdict overturned in his retrial for civil rights violations against a smuggler. The incident dates back to April of 2000 in Penitas. “He was striking me in the side… he was very close to my weapon… and I had to do what I could to control the situation as fast as I could.” Fearing for his life, David subdues the smuggler by hitting him with his flashlight. It results in staples to the smugglers head. A border patrol investigation is launched and deems his actions inappropriate– even illegal… The smuggler even gets a government settlement of “80 thousand dollars… he now has his own ranch in Mexico.’

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