07/19/08 06:53 AM
Border agent’s testimony aids murder conviction
A U. S. Customs and Border Protection agent played a key role in last month’s conviction of a Pennsylvania
police officer who shot his estranged wife in 2005.
On Aug. 24, 2005, Border Officer Peter Henesey stopped Richard C. Curran, 34, of Mount Carmel, Pa., who was a former police chief of a one-man police department as well as a police officer in Berks County. Just hours earlier, he had shot his estranged wife.
Curran failed to declare two handguns as he tried to cross the border. Henesey learned that Curran was being sought and took him into custody.
