Thread: Source claims ATF's Tampa SAC walked guns to Honduras

Breaking News: Source claims ATF's Tampa SAC walked guns to Honduras

David Codrea
July 6, 2011

Part of 'Operation Castaway'?

Exclusive Special Report by Mike Vanderboegh and David Codrea

Virginia O’Brien, Special Agent in Charge at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Tampa Field Division, ran a gun-running investigation that was walking guns to Honduras using the techniques and tactics identical to Fast and Furious, it was reported to these correspondents this evening via private correspondence from a proven credible source.

On 21 September, 2010, A. Brian Albritton, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida issued a press release on Operation Castaway:

United States Attorney A. Brian Albritton, Virginia O’Brien, Special Agent in Charge of central and northern Florida Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) operations, and Susan McCormick, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations, Tampa Field Office announce the initial results of Operation Castaway, an intensive and wideranging Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) firearms trafficking investigation conducted by ATF, ICE, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office, the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, and the Miami-Dade Police Department. ATF describes Operation Castaway as the most significant firearms trafficking investigation in Central Florida history.

According to court documents, a group of defendants connected to Hugh Crumpler, III, were involved in a major international gun trafficking operation. . . . Firearms like those involved in this investigation are often smuggled through Honduras and other Central and South American countries before being used in violent crimes in Mexico and other countries in the region. A number of the firearms trafficked by the defendants in Operation Castaway have been linked to violent crimes around the world.

The press release concluded, "This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys J. Bishop Ravenel and E. Jackson Boggs. Operation Castaway remains an ongoing investigation."

SAC O’Brien was previously the Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Division, was later promoted to the Deputy Assistant Director of ATF, but then stepped down to the position in Tampa. Whether the allegations of our source refer to the ongoing Operation Castaway remains at this hour unclear, but our source is certain that O'Brien has allowed the "walking" of straw-purchased firearms to Honduras using the same failed strategy as the Phoenix Field Division's Operation Fast and Furious. That Operation Castaway involved arms smuggling to Honduras is also certain.

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whatever politician Republican / Democrat / Independent / Conservative / Liberal that did this shit better be shaking in their collective blood stained shorts

You Broke international Law

You Broke American Law

Hundreds if not Thousands were killed (Slaughtered) by your actions

this is Premeditated MURDER and your actions make you an un-endighted co-conspirator to every crime / Murder committed with those guns

I'm pray'n Bush gets sucked into this worm hole too... he started this program

Obama picked up the lead sling'n where Bush Left Off

Fast and Furiious, (Gunwalker), and a report of gunwalking in Texas and now there is Operation Castaway.

Sorry, this was too big for Holder and many high ranking appontees and polticians to be ignorant of it.

They should be tried as criminals and set to prison, where they could get aquainted with some of the illegals that they have enabled and encouraged to be here.

Its like they're arming the illegals so it's easier for them to take this country

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July 10, 2011

ATF Tampa Division Walked Guns to Honduras and to MS13 Gang Members

July 10, 2011

By Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit

Leaders of the transnational organized criminal gang Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) even ordered a hit on a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in New York.

There are now reports that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Tampa Field Division, ran a gun-running investigation that was walking guns to Honduras using the techniques and tactics identical to Fast and Furious. 1,000 of those guns were sold to MS13 buyers.

http://nation.foxnews.com

The “Project Gunrunnerâ€

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