Agent found dead in suburban Dallas apartment after standoff

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | February 27, 2008 

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent killed himself after an armed standoff with an officer and three colleagues, Grand Prairie police said Wednesday.

Police discovered a suitcase full of pornography, a flag bearing a swastika hung in a closet and more than a half dozen weapons after finding Mark Juvette dead early Wednesday. Juvette, 40, was an agent with ICE’s Dallas Office of Detention and Removal, which transports detainees, manages them while in custody and deports illegal immigrants.

ICE officials did not comment on the circumstances of Juvette’s death or items confiscated from his apartment.

A police officer was sent to Juvette’s apartment Tuesday night after co-workers expressed concern for his welfare. An ICE official told police Juvette called in sick about a week ago, saying he had a heart condition. Juvette hadn’t been heard from since, according to a Grand Prairie police report.

The police officer, accompanied by three ICE agents, knocked on the door of Juvette’s apartment and said he was checking on his well-being. One of the agents, Juvette’s partner, also knocked at the door for about 30 minutes but received no answer, the report said.

The four then tried but were unable to enter the apartment, which was locked from the inside with a keyless deadbolt. While waiting for a police sergeant to respond, Juvette began shooting at them through the door. Six rounds went through the door of an apartment across the hall but no one was injured, the officer wrote in the report.

Tactical officers and negotiators were summoned and entered the apartment. They found Juvette dead from a gun shot wound to the head early Wednesday. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner ruled his death a suicide.

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