STAFFORD E BECKETT

Officer Rank: Special Agent
Memorial Panel: 33-E: 9
Department: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives
End of Watch: March 22, 1921
Cause: SHOT
Age: 31
Years of Service: 1
Description: Agent Beckett and Agent Charles A. Wood were killed while attempting to execute a search warrant on whiskey smugglers at the Shearman ranch in El Paso, Texas. Following a lead that 23 cases of liquor were to be sent across the Mexican border, Federal Prohibition Agents organized a raid during which the agents were killed.
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