FBI probing how sex-for-drugs arrest became jail shootout

A prison guard's unauthorized gun is at the center of an FBI investigation into how a routine arrest Wednesday turned into a gunbattle that killed a federal agent and the guard. The shootout broke out at a federal prison in Tallahassee, Florida, when federal agents tried to arrest six guards on charges they traded drugs for sex, officials said. One corrections officer began shooting, and federal agents returned fire, killing the gunman, the FBI said. An agent with the Office of Inspector General died in the shootout and a Bureau of Prisons official was wounded. "It just didn't come down exactly as planned," said FBI agent Michael Folmar. "This arrest situation was done in a manner to be very controlled in a situation where nobody would have any weapons and we could take this down so there wouldn't be any violence." Authorities say that plan worked with five of the guards, who were arrested without incident. But the sixth used his personal gun. A Bureau of Prisons statement said the guard -- identified as Ralph Hill -- "retrieved a personally owned weapon and shot at federal officers who were participating in the arrest."

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