Thread: Fast and Furious guns tied to new attack on police

Fast and Furious guns tied to second violent crime


Confiscated firearms at LAPD Harbor Station after more than 1,300 federal and local law enforcement officers participated in a raid arresting more than 80 members and associates of the Rancho San Pedro street gang in April. (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

By Richard A. Serrano, Washington Bureau

September 8, 2011, 3:49 p.m.
In the second violent crime in this country connected with the ATF’s failed Fast and Furious program, two Arizona undercover police officers were allegedly assaulted last year when they attempted to stop two men in a stolen vehicle with two of the program's weapons in a confrontation south of Phoenix.

The officers, members of an elite Arizona Department of Public Safety law enforcement unit, said the driver rammed their cars and threatened them with the firearms, and then fled into the Arizona desert. The driver was caught and arrested, and two firearms –- a Beretta pistol and AK-47 semiautomatic assault rifle -- were found in the stolen Ford truck, the police said.

The suspect, Angel Hernandez-Diaz, 48, believed to be a Mexican national, was charged with aggravated assault on a police officer, driving the stolen vehicle and illegal possession of the weapons. He has pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to stand trial in Pinal County, Ariz., next month.

Also arrested in the incident was the passenger, Rosario Zavala, 30, of Mexico, who was charged with possession of narcotics and the stolen vehicle.

The encounter came five months after the Fast and Furious program began, in which ATF agents allowed the illegal purchase of weapons to try to track the firearms to Mexican drug cartels. And it occurred nine months before the fatal slaying in December of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, killed in a separate assault in which two Fast and Furious firearms were discovered at the scene south of Tucson.

Sources said this is the first case so far of Fast and Furious weapons found at the scene of another violent crime other than Terry’s. Officials at ATF headquarters and the Justice Department are sifting through records to see whether there are more. About 2,000 weapons were allowed to be illegally purchased in the Phoenix area, and the vast majority were lost track of by ATF agents.

“There is bound to be a lot of them,â€

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Second violent crime linked to ATF gunwalking
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By Sharyl Attkisson
September 9, 2011 12:52 PM

A second violent crime in Arizona has been linked to weapons from ATF's "gunwalking" operation: Fast and Furious. The first known crime was the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

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So how exactly were they going to track these weapons? Follow the trail of dead bodies?

Originally Posted by stevetheroofer

So how exactly were they going to track these weapons? Follow the trail of dead bodies?

Snitches maybe? There are soo many tough laws in California, I am surprised anybody is living there that isn't an illegal alien that uses fake documents to escape the looooooooooooooong arm of the law there. One would think the Law Makers were retarded, considering this fact. Heck, a new bottom of the line water heater in California costs $1200.00 installed, without retrofitting old pipes, which adds on mo' money. One could be out say $2,000.00 to replace a water heater.

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