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Saturday, March 30, 2013  Calm is returning slowly returning to the streets of Reynosa following reports of a shootout, gunmen opening fire on a helicopter and a string of tire fires.

Monday, August 08, 2011  U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the helicopter landed Saturday afternoon at Laredo International Airport after the pilot mistook the airport for a landing strip in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.

Wednesday, August 03, 2011  A shootout between armed men and soldiers has erupted south of the border in Matamoros where Catholic leaders had called for a 'Day of Prayer for Peace.'

Friday, July 22, 2011  A group of game wardens patrolling the waters of Falcon Lake got a surprise from a Mexican military helicopter earlier this week.

Friday, September 17, 2010  Military helicopters are hovering across the Rio Grande from the UTB campus but Mexican officials are remaining tight-lipped about a series of shootouts south of the border in Matamoros.

Friday, June 04, 2010  A Rio Grande Valley landowner claims a Mexican military helicopter crossed into the United States and flew over his land.

Thursday, March 11, 2010  Authorities confirmed that a Mexican military helicopter crossed the American side of the border near Falcon Dam late Wednesday afternoon.