WASHINGTON — The Drug Enforcement Administration misled Congress about a 2012 shooting in Honduras that left four innocent people dead, including a 14-year-old boy, according to a new report from the Justice Department’s internal watchdog. A DEA agent in a helicopter gave an order to fire upon a passenger boat in Ahuas, Honduras, on May 11, 2012. The police officers in the smaller boat fired upon the larger boat, and a DEA agent in a helicopter ordered another Honduran police officer to fire upon the boat. Some initial reports suggested there was a firefight, but there’s no evidence that anyone in the passenger boat fired at the officers. The report also focuses on two separate shooting incidents involving DEA agents in the months following May 2012.

Source: Huffington Post May 24, 2017 16:41 UTC