HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - The U.S. Customs and Border Protection will name three boats after members of the agency who died in the line of duty.
A vessel naming ceremony is scheduled for Thursday morning at a boat launch in Macomb County’s Harrison Township, northeast of Detroit.
Patrol inspectors Franklin P. Wood, Earl A. Roberts and Charles F. Inch were killed in the Detroit-area.
Wood’s boat was rammed in December 1927 will chasing another boat on the Detroit River near Wyandotte. His body never was found.
Roberts was shot to death in March 1929 by a liquor smuggler on the St. Clair River in Algonac.
Inch died in June 1932 after been thrown from a moving freight train. He was pursuing two people trying to enter the country illegally from Canada.
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