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10-year-old with terminal cancer sworn in to nearly 400 police agencies

HOUSTON — A young boy battling terminal cancer was sworn in as the youngest U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer, adding another department to a long list that has sworn the child in.

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Devarjaye Daniel took the oath with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol working at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston May 3, making him the youngest among the ranks, the agency announced in a news release.

“This is right up his alley,” Theodis Daniel, Devarjay’s father, said in a statement. “He turned down a trip to Disney World because law enforcement is all he wants to do.”

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In January, Devarjay began his quest to fulfill his wish of being sworn in by 100 police agencies, KTRK reported. By the end of January, he had been sworn in to agencies in multiple Texas counties, the DEA, Texas Rangers, ATF and was even named chief of the Houston ISD, the station reported.

Devarjaye easily passed his goal of 100 agencies before the end of the month.

“I told him, I said, ‘You know, it’s not going to end,’” Theodis Daniel told KTRK. “This love and support is going to come. You’ve got years of this. I don’t think you’re going to get everybody, you’re going to get most of them.” Daniel’s response? “I’m going to go up to about 2,000 or so,” Daniel confidently told the station.

In February, Devarjay was sworn in as an honorary police officer at Rice University and The University of St. Thomas. By then, he had become an honorary member of 230 agencies.

In April, Devarjaye Daniel went to New York City, where he was sworn in by the New York Police Department and the FBI’s New York Office, KPRC reported.

While working with CBP agents after he was sworn in, he got to take part in training by getting to inspect a package. “Whoa, somebody is going to jail,” Davarjaye said as he pulled an unloaded training gun out of the package he was inspecting, CBP said in a news release.