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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Mexican Police Chief Killed With Rifle From Obama and Holder’s Fast and
Furious Gun-Running Scheme »
by Jammie
Move along, nothing to see here. There have only been a couple hundred
people killed, so what’s the big deal?
A high-powered rifle lost in the ATF’s Fast and Furious controversy was
used to kill a Mexican police chief in the state of Jalisco earlier this
year, according to internal Department of Justice records, suggesting that
weapons from the failed gun-tracking operation have now made it into the
hands of violent drug cartels deep inside Mexico.
Luis Lucio Rosales Astorga, the police chief in the city of
Hostotipaquillo, was shot to death Jan. 29 when gunmen intercepted his
patrol car and opened fire. Also killed was one of his bodyguards. His wife
and a second bodyguard were wounded.
Local authorities said eight suspects in their 20s and 30s were arrested
after police seized them nearby with a cache of weapons — rifles, grenades
, handguns, helmets, bulletproof vests, uniforms and special communications
equipment. The area is a hot zone for rival drug gangs, with members of
three cartels fighting over turf in the region.
A semi-automatic WASR rifle, the firearm that killed the chief, was
traced back to the Lone Wolf Trading Company, a gun store in Glendale, Ariz.
The notation on the Department of Justice trace records said the WASR was
used in a “HOMICIDE – WILLFUL – KILL –PUB OFF –GUN” –ATF code for “
Homicide, Willful Killing of a Public Official, Gun.”
Hundreds of firearms were lost in the Fast and Furious operation. The
federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives allowed illegal
purchasers to buy the firearms at the Lone Wolf store in the Phoenix suburb
and other gun shops in hopes of tracing them to Mexican cartel leaders.
The WASR used in Jalisco was purchased on Feb. 22, 2010, about three
months into the Fast and Furious operation, by 26-year-old Jacob A.
Montelongo of Phoenix. He later pleaded guilty to conspiracy, making false
statements and smuggling goods from the United States and was sentenced to
41 months in prison.
Court records show Montelongo personally obtained at least 109 firearms
during Fast and Furious. How the WASR ended up in the state of Jalisco,
which is deep in central Mexico and includes the country’s second-largest
metropolis, Guadalajara, remained unclear.
After the shooting in Jalisco, local officials said some of the suspects
confessed to two other shootouts in the area, including one that left seven
people dead, all part of the continuing feud by rival cartel members.
The ATF declined to discuss the matter; officials said they are still
compiling an inventory of all the lost firearms for a complete account of
the Fast and Furious operation.
They’ll get back to us with the truth once the internal investigation is
completed sometime in the next decade. |
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