The deaths of two US border patrol agents after their Colombian vacation is being investigated by the FBI.
Jaime Eduardo Cisneros, 54, and Alexander Ahmed, 54, traveled to Colombia together in late May.
But before they returned home, Cisneros was found dead in a Medellin hotel after a tryst with a woman described locally as a prostitute.
Ahmed then killed himself on American soil after returning home from the trip, before FBI agents had the chance to interview him about his friend’s death.
Cisneros’ cause of death remains unknown. The woman he’d been with was seen waving goodbye to him and leaving his room, according to local outlets.
US investigators spent days in Medellin working with Colombian officials to piece together how he died.
Officials discovered that his phone and other valuables were missing from the hotel room where his body was found, and his clothes and suitcase were in ‘total disarray’.
His wallet had also been emptied.
After his death, Ahmed returned to Texas alone, but killed himself days after.
Ahmed’s body was discovered June 4 in El Paso.
Both men were assigned to the Clint station, just outside Texas’ sixth largest city, and were nearing retirement eligibility.
US Customs and Border Protection, the parent agency of US Border Patrol, did not immediately respond to a request for comment by DailyMail.com.
In December, the US Embassy in Bogota issued a travel alert after eight American men died in a span of two months in the South American nation under ‘suspicious’ circumstances.
To date, 28 tourists, including Americans, have died in Medellin this year, Colombian authorities admitted.
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