CHARLES A WOOD

Officer Rank: Special Agent
Memorial Panel: 62-W: 2
Department: Drug Enforcement Administration
End of Watch: March 22, 1921
Cause: SHOT
Age: 35
Years of Service: 12
Description: Agent Wood and Agent Stafford Beckett 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, a Federal raid was organized that resulted in their deaths.
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