Posted on 09/08/2012 3:06:59 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Mexican federal police announced Friday that they have arrested a suspect in the killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, the slaying at the center of the scandal over the botched U.S. gun-smuggling probe known as Operation Fast and Furious.
Jesus Leonel Sanchez Meza is one of the five men charged with killing Terry in December 2010 during a shootout in Arizona near the Mexico border. One is on trial in Arizona and the other three remain fugitives. Sanchez was arrested Thursday in Sonora state.
Two guns found at the scene were bought by a member of a gun-smuggling ring that was being monitored in the Fast and Furious investigation. Critics have knocked U.S. federal authorities for allowing informants to walk away from Phoenix-area gun shops with weapons, rather than immediately arresting suspects.
In Operation Fast and Furious and at least three earlier probes during the administration of President George W. Bush, agents in Arizona employed a risky tactic called gun-walking - allowing low-level "straw" buyers in gun-trafficking networks to leave with loads of weapons purchased at gun shops. The goal was to track the guns to major weapons traffickers and drug cartels in order to bring cases against kingpins who had long eluded prosecution under the prevailing strategy of arresting low-level purchasers of guns who were suspected of buying them for others.
During Operation Fast and Furious, many of the weapons weren't tracked and wound up at crime scenes in Mexico and the U.S., including the Terry shooting.
In July, U.S. authorities made a rare disclosure linked to the botched gun-smuggling probe, revealing identities and requesting the public's help in capturing the four fugitives accused in the shooting death of Terry.
The release of the suspects' identities in an unsealed indictment came with the offer of a $1 million reward for information leading to their capture.
The FBI said it was seeking information related to Jesus Rosario Favela-Astorga, 31, Ivan Soto-Barraza, 34, Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes, 34, and a man identified as Lionel Portillo-Meza, which Mexican police said was an alias of the man arrested Thursday in Puerto Penasco, Sonora.
Portillo-Meza's age and birthplace were unavailable. The other three fugitives were born in Mexico, but their hometowns were not available.
Authorities had previously released the identity of the fifth suspect, Manuel Osorio-Arellanes of El Fuerte in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. He was shot during the gunfight and has been in custody since the night of the shooting. He has pleaded not guilty in the case, telling investigators that he raised his weapon toward the agents during the shootout but didn't fire, the FBI said in records. His age was not immediately available.
All five men have been charged with murder. They also face charges of assaulting four federal agents.
FBI agents declined to discuss which fugitive is suspected of firing the shot that killed Terry. They also would not comment on whether the weapon was linked to an Operation Fast and Furious purchase.
The five men, plus another who faces lesser charges in the case, went to the U.S. from Mexico in order to rob marijuana smugglers, the indictment said.
Did they ever say what he did good, in their eyes? Ignoring the Constitution, bailouts, food stamps, his Czar Empire, etc.
adoring faces of the Obama admirers in the crowd were enough to show me the extent of the delusion these people are operating under!
They are under the evil spirit of seduction.
Please tell me it is Eric Holder!
This is very easy to understand. This is what you get when the schools, universities and mass media are controlled by libs for the last 30 years. Obama is also successful because the white people percentage is down over the last 30 years due to immigration and birthrates. If we could magically go back to 1988 which was Dukakis vs Bush. I have no doubt that Mitt Romney would have a vast lead over Obama
In 1988 this nations demographics were more favorable to conservatives (California elected Republican governors) and Republicans plus the brainwashing via schools and mass media was only half done
It is one thing to have a message and the 2012 Republicans and Romney have a darn good one. But it is one thing to have a message and another matter to get it out there. The mass media is always distributing the Democrat messages and ignoring Republican ones or distorting them, one good example is this Republican war on women ginned up by the Democrats and the mass media. Michelle Malkin can say something brilliant on Fox news and her website but how widely will it be distributed compared to some garbage coming from Sandra Fluck's mouth?
For me the first law of propaganda is --- How widely can you get it distributed?
Eric Holder had no idea his Cancun vacation would turn out this way.
Pray to God this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhyhP_5VfKM
One explanation is that they were brought up in families that were staunchly Democrat and they have always voted that way. Another is that, as children of the 60s, the two of them were part of the "hippie" movement while I never was. As a biology major during the time of the first Earth Day, I did go through a period during which I was not nearly as conservative as I am now, but I still cannot understand how two people who are as intelligent as they are and who are Bible-believing Christians can continue to think the way they do politically! I still love them both very much, but I stay away from the subject of politics as much as possible when we are together.
“My conservative friends and I have been discussing lately that we cannot understand how some of our liberal friends can so blindly support Obama”
My son is a Border Patrol Agent. He reports that there are agents supporting The Messiah. I am not kidding.
These agents are not trusted. They place loyalty to The Messiah over their own safety and the life and safety of their fellow agents.
“They also said this may not be the one who actually pulled the trigger and killed him.”
Perhaps. I say kill him. . .just to be sure.
FINALLY some justice, I say death penalty
Just the usual suspects?
the other three remain fugitives.
I know where 2 of them are.......
One is in the White House...and the other one is hiding in the Justice Dept.
Well, she may be right ... about me anyway. Or at least I might encourage the ladies to sportingly offer to go shopping with an African-American and an Hispanic or two, or something, just for this election, anyway.
How about it girls? Sit this dance out and look the other way while we trounce Obama?
I wish it was just stupid.
I have spent months presenting volumes of records of "misdeeds" by our Democrat rulers to my wife's uncle. Absolutely nothing makes an impression. My sources are suspect, or it just didn't happen, or "everyone does it". Or, if my evidence is just too rock solid, then I get either a flippant remark that has nothing to do with the subject, or I get no response at all.
These people don't need logic, or even counseling. Pharmacology is what they need.
Mexican federal police announced Friday that they have arrested a suspect in the killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, the slaying at the center of the scandal over the botched U.S. gun-smuggling probe an unsuccessful attempt to turn public opinion against gun ownership known as Operation Fast and Furious.
FIFY
“Pharmacology is what they need.”
I know people like your wife’s uncle. They choose their ideology over truth every time.
I still feel that choosing to reject facts and truth is stupid.
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