Being a "Cop" is getting tougher and tougher

Received: Saturday, November 08, 2008 12:02 PM
Subject: FBI reward in Border Agent poisoning

(Very little, if any, news was released about this incident. )

FBI reward in Border Agent poisoning

(Created: Thursday, October 30, 2008)

Cut Bank, Utah:

The FBI is asking for the public's help in an investigation

into the poisoning of a Border Patrol agent earlier this year.

Timothy Fuhrman, special agent in charge of the FBI's

regional office in Salt Lake City, announced a $25,000

reward Wednesday for information leading to the arrest

and conviction of anyone responsible for the poisoning

of U. S. Customs and Border Patrol Agent Denton Moberly.

A tip line has also been set up. The number is (866)

931- 6962. Moberly had lunch at a fast food restaurant

in Cut Bank in February and became violently ill. In July,

an informant told the Glacier County sheriff's office that

the "border cop" had been deliberately fed a farm poison.

"I was in uniform, and I was driving a marked vehicle

through the drive-through lane," Moberly said, adding

that at the time he was relatively new in town, knew only

a few People and had no known enemies. "I believe this

was a random attack on law enforcement," he said at

Wednesday's news conference.

Juan Becerra, media coordinator for the FBI's Salt Lake

City Division, said investigators were following some leads,

but it was time to seek help from the public. "When we

appeal to the public it is with the hopes that the public

can fill in the blanks," he said.

Moberly is confined to a wheelchair from the effects of the

poison. "The nervous system damage has been extensive,"

Becerra said. "We are again amazed at how much he has

been able to recover so far. These are very taxing

physical problems."

Becerra said Moberly has very little control of his right leg

and at times passes out and falls down, injuring himself.

He now wears a helmet and slurs his speech. Moberly,

who was a border patrol agent in Laredo, Texas, for six

years, moved his family to Montana a year ago because

he thought it would be safer. He said the poisoning has

"destroyed" his life. "I was a firearms and an ATV

instructor, and rode bikes off-road with my family,"

he said. "Now all I can do is sit on the couch and watch TV."