Mexican Authorities Detain Man Accused of Shooting Border Agent Brian Terry
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, September 8, 2012, 8:34 AM
On December 14, 2010 in Peck Canyon, northwest of Nogales, Arizona, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was shot dead by a group of illegal border entrants who refused commands to drop their weapons after they were confronted by US agents. The illegals murdered Terry with a gun connected to a failed federal experiment that allowed firearms to be smuggled into Mexico. The family of slain border agent Brian Terry blamed Eric Holder for their son’s death.
The Obama Administration knew about the program in 2009. The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives discussed using “Fast and Furious” to push for new regulations on gun sales. In June Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt over the Fast and Furious scandal.
Today Mexican authorities announced that they have detained a man accused of fatally shooting Brian Terry back in 2010.
Reuters reported:
Mexican police detained a man accused of fatally shooting a U.S. Border Patrol agent almost two years ago in Arizona in a botched U.S. operation to track guns smuggled across the border, the government said Friday.
Federal police detained Jesus Leonel Sanchez Meza on Thursday in Sonora state, which borders Arizona, where agent Brian Terry was shot dead in December 2010, the Public Security Ministry said. The Mexican Attorney General’s Office plans to extradite Sanchez Meza to the United States, the ministry said in a statement.
Two guns found at the scene were traced to a botched U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) sting operation called “Fast and Furious” that allowed weapons to slip across the border. It was not clear, however, if those weapons fired the fatal shots.
Four others have been accused in the shooting, the ministry said. Officials did not say if they were also being detained.
Republicans have criticized U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration for allowing the Fast and Furious program, which led to some calls for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign.
In June, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives found Holder, the nation’s top law enforcement official, in contempt for withholding documents related to the failed gun-running probe
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VotingFemale commented:
Surprise Surprise. When did the white House know of this arrest and what did they do to stifle it until after the election?
DecentAmerican commented:
our border patrol agents, like brian terry, are armed with bean bag bullets by this President, who arms the enemy with assault rifles. If that is not treason, I don’t know what is.
The demon in the white house has blood on his hands, he does not care about our brave men and women in uniform. How could the liberal racist nut jobs vote for this savage?
valerie commented:
I am glad that Mexico isn’t treating Operation Fast & Furious as an act of war. We, however, have a responsibility to recognize it as such.
Shipping large numbers of assault rifles to criminals in a neighboring country, without consulting that country or engaging in any credible law enforcement effort, where the criminals are involved in violent attacks on the scale of a civil war, and where there has been no attempt to even track the weapons, with the wholly foreseeable result of large numbers of civilians killed, fits the American idea of an act of war, most especially if it turns out those illegal shipments were made in an effort to obtain legislation restricting the sale of guns in the United States.
Acts of war are high crimes.
If Barack Obama is re-elected, he will be impeached.
BarbaraS commented:
It’s amazing that Gonzales was hounded and forced to resign on absolutely nothing but unproven accusations by the dims but their attornery general gets a pass for this egregious act of treason. The media tried their best to stick Gonzales with something, anything but say tried to hide the acts of this treasonous POS. I believed at the time that W thought to appease these members of the fifth column. What he didn’t realize was that they will never be appeased until they hold all offices of government, federal, state and local all over the country and until all the citizens march to their orders. I, for one, am sick and tired of the dims and their propaganda arm, the media, slanting the news with lies that benefit them but report ad nauseum any fake news they can come up with about us. We have our bad apples but these apples are reported in the news as if the media is amazed at the corruption of the whole republican party while the dims have ten times the bad apples that are hidden and the public is never told.
Militant conservative commented:
I smell a sacrifice to get this issue off of the table. Nothing more, nothing less than politics.
Kissmygrits commented:
I’m sure Holder is writing the request for extradition as we speak.
Patty commented:
I hope that the Terry family gets JUSTICE. This has taken years now. I pray his parents finally can lay their son to rest, God forbid before their health fails.
It is disgusting that in America our men and women of the border patrol fight an uphill battle not just with protecting America but with this Chicken Chit, administration.
Patty commented:
UPDATE: Suspect in Brian Terry death in custody
http://www.kvoa.com/news/update-suspect-in-brian-terry-death-in-custody/
Sandy commented:
8 September 8, 2012 at 9:51 am
Militant conservative commented:
I smell a sacrifice to get this issue off of the table. Nothing more, nothing less than politics.
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Everything tied up and wrapped in a bow. Its the Obama way.
JPhat commented:
Not better off after four years: Brian Terry
GP Fan commented:
(Sorry for the yelling, LOL)
Here’s what get’s me FIRED UP!!! The BLATANT BEND COMPLETELY OVER BIAS!!! And because of it, ONLY and ENTIRELY because of it, people DON’T KNOW THE TRUTH about this admin being DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE for his death, the death of HUNDREDS of MEXICANS, and it was all done to push their beloved gun control to make serfs out of us!!! This admin pushes illegal guns to drug cartels, KNOWING INNOCENT PEOPLE WILL DIE, and DOESN’T CARE!!! THIS ADMIN IS WHO REALLY HATES BROWN PEOPLE!!!! AND IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE PREVIOUS ADMIN!!!!!!!
Here’s Ace with the BLATANTLY HORRENDOUS BIAS:
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/332670.php
September 08, 2012
Saturday Morning Open Thread
The AP reported that Mexico has arrested one of the suspected killers of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
[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.]
They couldn’t resist this shameless bit of hackery, though:
[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 ...]
Guess whose names they don’t mention in the entire article.
Also, conflating these various operations is complete (bs). If you’re going to call OF&F “botched”, you need to be able to explain how it was supposed to work.
In one of the operations not run by Barack Obama and Eric Holder, we used GPS trackers in the guns and suspended it when the trackers didn’t work. And in all of the operations not run by Barack Obama and Eric Holder, Mexican officials were working with us so we actually had an effin’ plan to track the guns on the other side of the border that didn’t involve recovering them from crime scenes.
(h/t JWF)
mg4us commented:
When will we hear more about Fast and Furious or a DOJ head in Contempt of Congress?
Who is Betting against the American People Biden?
As you said, never bet against American People! Never!
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