National Security
Mexico: Top Officials Among Charged in ‘Fast and Furious’ Weapons Trafficking
On Sunday, Mexican prosecutors said they have charged seven individuals in the infamous “Fast and Furious” weapons trafficking scandal. Among those charged in the more than decade old case were former top police official Genaro Garcia Luna and former drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman.
“Fast and Furious” was and investigation in which agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives sold guns to criminals with the intention of tracking the weapons.
The plan went horribly wrong, and the agency lost most of the guns, including two guns that were found at the scene of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry who was murdered In December of 2010.
Terry’s murder exposed the bungled investigation. Fox News reports Mexico says drug gangs and former officials also participated in or failed to stop the weapons trafficking. Garcia Luna was arrested in Texas in 2019 for allegedly protecting a drug gang.
Luna was security chief in President Felipe Calderon’s 2006-2012 administration, and was also tasked with being the leader of the government’s fight against organized crime. Also charged was former Federal Police commander Luis Cardenas Palomino, who was the right-hand man of Garcia Luna.
Palomino was already arrested on charges of torture and U.S. prosecutors have separately accused him of accepting millions in bribes from the Sinaloa cartel, reports Fox News. Drug lord ‘El Chapo’ was also charged with weapons trafficking, but is already serving a life sentence in Colorado.
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Stan Goudeau
January 10, 2022 at 9:36 am
The article maintains that the weapons were lost, implying some kind of managerial mistake….they were deliberately released with no intention of tracking by the (Obama) administration to enhance their attack on the 2nd amendment.
Va
January 10, 2022 at 9:27 pm
Why weren’t the brains at the ATF charged at least with terminal stupidity?
Nate
January 11, 2022 at 5:21 am
Don’t forget to charge Erik Holder!
Esther
January 11, 2022 at 9:13 am
This was all a planned event by Obama to help destroy America. Shame on him and Holder!!!!
John Little
January 11, 2022 at 9:36 am
Another Marxist Islamofascist Obama/Eric Holder ‘stuff up’. Well done guys. Creeps
Jim Forbes
January 11, 2022 at 9:56 am
Let me know when they charge Eric Holder. Put a bounty on him and I will bring him in for you.
TellTheTruth-2
January 17, 2022 at 12:34 pm
The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine. Hopefully the people in the USA that are involved are eventually charged too.