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Title: ***ATF: Let's Release Man Giving Grenades to Cartels*** Post by: Coach Hank Crisp on September 06, 2011, 05:38:07 PM http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2011/09/06/atf_lets_release_man_giving_grenades_to_cartels
Quote Apparently, a confession just isn't enough these days to keep a guy behind bars who openly admitted trafficking grenades, yes, grenades, to Mexican drug cartel members, thanks to officials working in the ATF Phoenix Field Division Office, Arizona U.S. attorney's office and the Obama Justice Department. From the WSJ: Federal authorities are probing why the U.S. in 2010 let go an Arizona man accused of supplying grenades to a Mexican drug cartel, a case that played a role in the ouster last week of the nation's top firearms regulator and the U.S. attorney in Phoenix. U.S. officials said missteps in the case, which hasn't been previously disclosed, are being investigated by the Justice Department and Congress. Federal agents in 2009-10 at the Phoenix office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives led the case against the suspect, who they believed was dealing grenades to cartels in Mexico. The case was overseen by prosecutors in the Arizona U.S. attorney's office, the U.S. officials said. Jean Baptiste Kingery, the suspect in the grenades case, was arrested Aug. 31 in Mexico and has been charged with violating that nation's organized-crime laws, according to U.S. officials. |