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The family of a slain Border Patrol agent has sued federal officials over the botched “Fast and Furious” gun operation. Agent Brian Terry was mortally wounded on Dec. 14, 2010, in a firefight north of the Arizona-Mexico border between U.S. agents and five men who had sneaked into the country to rob marijuana smugglers. Federal [...] More than 68 percent of the weapons recovered at Mexican crime scenes over a five-year period were traced to U.S. manufacturers or U.S. dealers who import firearms, according to statistics of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Between 2007 and 2011, Mexican law enforcement submitted 99,691requests to the ATF for tracing, and 68,161 [...] An attempt by drug smugglers to propel cans of marijuana into the United States with a pneumatic cannon was thwarted by Border Patrol agents over the weekend. The incident happened some time after sunset Friday in a field near County 22nd and the Colorado River, just northwest of San Luis, Ariz. The drug smugglers crossed [...] Authorities say a U.S. Border Patrol agent has shot and wounded a man in Arizona, cialis 40mg south of Gila Bend. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials say Yuma Sector agents responded to “possible bandit activity” near an Arizona 85 checkpoint about 6 p.m. Tuesday. The agents reportedly came across two armed men about 14 [...] Yesterday afternoon at around 3 p.m., dosage Dallas police were sent to check out a silver Pontiac sedan parked suspiciously in an Oak Cliff alley. Officers waited for the driver to pull away, cheap then performed a traffic stop on the 2400 block of Brooklyn Avenue after the car made an illegal turn. Police arrested [...] One Border Patrol agent has died and another has non-life-threatening injuries following a shooting near Bisbee, according to a Border Patrol spokesperson. The Border Patrol has identified the slain agent as Nicholas Ivie, 30, who had been with the agency since January 2008. Ivie was married with two children and a native of Provo, Utah. [...] As has been the case with much of the timeline in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives “Fast and Furious” operation, the details just seem to get worse. This time, Univision claims it has linked 57 guns from Mexican crime scenes to the “Fast and Furious” operation — 57 weapons that were not [...] Republicans and Democrats are praising the long-awaited report investigating the botched 2009 “gun-walking” operation known as Fast and Furious, but not for the same reasons. Three years ago, federal agents lost track of hundreds of weapons after launching the operation. Many of those weapons ended up in the hands of criminals, and one border patrol [...] The Justice Department’s internal investigator is poised to release a long-awaited report on Operation Fast and Furious that could answer some of the big remaining questions about the controversial Arizona gun-trafficking investigation. Inspector General Michael Horowitz and his staff have taken more than a year to look into the operation, in which hundreds of guns [...] Mexican federal police have arrested a suspect in the killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, site the slaying at the center of the scandal over the botched U.S. gun-smuggling probe known as Operation Fast and Furious. Jesus Leonel Sanchez Meza is one of the five men charged with killing Terry in December 2010 [...] |
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