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08-15-2013, 01:01 PM #1
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More Fast and Furious guns surface at crimes in Mexico
By SHARYL ATTKISSON / CBS NEWS/ August 14, 2013, 12:54 PM
More Fast and Furious guns surface at crimes in Mexico
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Three more weapons from Fast and Furious have turned up at crime scenes in Mexico, CBS News has learned, as the toll from the controversial federal operation grows.
According to Justice Department tracing documents obtained by CBS News, all three guns are WASR-10 762-caliber Romanian rifles. Two were purchased by Fast and Furious suspect Uriel Patino in May and July of 2010. Sean Steward, who was convicted on gun charges in July 2012, purchased a third. The rifles were traced yesterday to the Lone Wolf gun shop in Glendale, Ariz.
During Fast and Furious and similar operations, federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) encouraged the Lone Wolf and other gun stores to sell massive amounts of weapons to questionable purchasers who allegedly trafficked them Mexican drug cartels.
Patino is said to have purchased 700 guns while under ATF's watch. Ever since, a steady stream of the guns have been recovered at crime scenes in Mexico and the U.S. But the Justice Department has refused repeated requests from Congress and CBS News to provide a full accounting. An estimated 1,400 guns are still on the street or unaccounted for.
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Last November, a Fast and Furious weapon wasfound at a shootout between a Mexican drug cartel and soldiers where a beauty queen was killed. Two weapons used in the murder of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata in Mexico on Feb. 15, 2011 also came from suspects who were under ATF watch but not arrested at the time. And two Fast and Furious AK-47 type rifles were recovered from the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terryin December 2010; he'd been shot by illegal immigrants who were smuggling drugs.
ATF special agent John Dodson blew the whistleon his agency's gunwalking in an interview with CBS News in 2011.
The government first denied any guns had been allowed to "walk" into criminal hands. Later, the Justice Department acknowledged using the strategy, claiming it was intended to see where the weapons ended up in hopes of capturing a major cartel leader. But the agency ordered an immediate halt to the practice calling it highly improper.
The Justice Department's refusal to turn over certain Fast and Furious documents led to a bipartisan vote in the House of Representatives in June 2012 to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. Then, the Obama administration used executive privilege for the first time, to withhold requested documents from Congress. The Republican-led House Oversight Committee is suing for release of the material.
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08-15-2013, 01:08 PM #2
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More Fast and Furious guns found at crime scenes in Mexico
By Cheryl K. Chumley
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The Washington Times
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Three more weapons that were part of the Department of Justice’s Operation Fast and Furious have been discovered at crime sites in Mexico, federal documents confirm.
Fox News reported that the guns were tracked down and recovered. Justice Department documents described the weapons as WASR-10 .762 caliber Romanian rifles. The three weapons were tracked back to a gun store located in Glendale, Ariz., Fox News said.
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It’s not yet clear exactly where the guns were found, or what crimes they were used to commit. But the Department of Justice papers did indicate that two of the weapons had been bought by a man named Uriel Patino.
Mr. Patino is believed to have previously purchased 700 other weapons in the Fast and Furious program, at the urging of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Fox News reported.
The other weapon was purchased by Sean Steward, who was convicted of gun charges a year ago, Fox News reported.
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