DEA Agents Refuse To Turn Over ATF Guns

DEA Agents Refuse To Turn Over ATF Guns

Lisa Leigh Kelly, Reporter, KPHO CBS 5 News

PHOENIX -- In an Arizona drug bust last month the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration confiscated more than drugs. Federal agents accidentally came upon two giant garbage cans filled with assault rifles, and they just uncovered some of those guns that had been in the hands of the drug runners once belonged to their brother agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

The federal drug agents discovered the AK-47-type assault rifles wrapped in cellophane and hidden inside two giant trash barrels. Agents believe the confiscated weapons were heading to drug cartels in Mexico. Problem is, a serial number on at least one of the weapons traces back to the ATF.

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Then in December, some of the ATF guns were found in the hands of the bandits who opened fire on Border Patrol agents in Southern Arizona. Agent Brian Terry was killed in the shootout. And the "Fast and Furious" program was publicly exposed.

Until then, not even the DEA knew about the gun operation. Now, sources told CBS 5 News the DEA is refusing to turn over the cache of weapons from its bust to the ATF.

Congress wants answers, too. Sources said a gun store in Glendale -- the Lone Wolf Trading Company -- cooperated with the ATF and sold weapons to suspects. A store spokesman told CBS 5 News that every employee is "under a congressional subpoena," and unable to comment.


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Edited to add:

DEA accidentally finds guns from ATF "gunwalker"


CBS News has learned that the DEA has confiscated a stash of assault rifles connected to ATF's Fast and Furious operation. It's a major seizure of weapons in the controversial ATF case that's the subject of at least two investigations. Sources say it's believed the suspects intended to take the guns to Mexico.


Sources say DEA accidentally came upon the guns while stopping suspects in an unrelated case in the Phoenix area on April 13th. When agents stopped at least two suspects, they found two giant garbage cans full of dozens of AK-47 type weapons wrapped in cellophane. Sources tell CBS News that a trace on the first weapon showed it was purchased in Nov. 2009 by a suspect in ATF's Fast and Furious case.




http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20064443-10391695.html

Just more NRA/GOP chicanery, isnt it? :sarcasm:

LMAO

and plus 1 it before noon MDT. I bet on it

SANTA TERESA, N.M. -- Thirty-five rolls of Mexican bologna were seized Friday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the Santa Teresa, N.M., port of entry.

Read more: http://www.koat.com/news/27914039/detail.html#ixzz1Mtx6rkQ0

Somebody get George the Painter on the phone !

Must have been trading the bologna for guns.

Your presence is requested to try to explain all of this.

yup

Pity it consisted of refusing to participate in covering up the cock-up committed by another federal agency.