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A new sentencing date has been set for two men who admitted to participating in a gun smuggling ring that was investigated by the federal government in Operation Fast and Furious. Jacob Wayne Chambers and Jacob Anthony Montelongo had been scheduled to be sentenced on Monday for their earlier guilty pleas to one conspiracy charge. [...] A man was arrested for attempting to smuggle nearly 6,000 rounds of ammunition into Mexico through the Lukeville Port of Entry near Yuma on Friday. While Customs and Border Protection officers were conducting operations, they were referred two Mexican nationals for a secondary inspection of their Dodge truck. During the inspection, officers found 5,950 rounds [...] El Paso has become an important firearms-smuggling center for the Sinaloa drug cartel, which is engaged in an ongoing battle against its rivals in Juárez and Mexico, according to a new U.S. congressional report on Operation Fast and Furious. The May 3 report issued by the U.S. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is the [...] Dan Wirth and Keith Graves spent significant portions of their careers working on the Arizona-Mexico border. They know these troubled lands inside and out. Both have reputations as straight-shooters, and both retired last December. Now able to speak freely, they agreed to talk to the Tucson Weekly with only one topic off-limits—the murder of Border [...] The murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December of 2010 was the precipitating factor that led to the first news story concerning the now infamous Fast and Furious scandal involving the ATF, visit web the DOJ, sickness and their scheme to send American guns to Mexican drug cartels. As that story has [...] “The border is not a fence or a line in the dirt… it is a third country that joins Mexico and the United States.” Quote by David Aguilar, rx Chief Border Patrol Agent under the Obama-Napolitano regime. The above statement made by Obama’s head Border Patrol agent set off a firestorm of controversy and anger [...] There’s new fallout from the botched gun-running operation Fast and Furious. Fox News has learned the accused ringleader was arrested and released three times — and two of those arrests happened in Phoenix. The most wanted man in the Fast and Furious investigation was caught in the act on a government camera firing 10 rounds [...] The Pentagon began flying military helicopters and surveillance planes over the U.S. border with Mexico last month as part of an effort to withdraw all but 300 of the National Guard ground troops who have helped patrol the rugged border since mid-2010. The 19-month deployment of 1, page 200 National Guard troops on the southwest [...] Two federal agents at the heart of a failed gunrunning investigation are trying to shift the blame for allowing illegal buyers to take the weapons to Mexico. The Arizona Daily Star reports that lawyers for ATF supervisors Bill Newell and David Voth sent letters to two members of Congress investigating Operation Fast and Furious. They [...] A judge has set a new trial date for 15 people accused of participating in a gun smuggling ring that was investigated by the federal government in Operation Fast and Furious. U.S. District Judge James Teilborg set a Jan. 3 trial date. Ring members are accused of buying guns and smuggling them into Mexico for [...] |
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