Mexican police chief killed with rifle lost in ATF program

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Mexican police chief killed with rifle lost in ATF program
July 6, 2013 12:09 am
By Richard A. Serrano / Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON -- A high-powered rifle lost in the ATF's Fast and Furious controversy was used to kill a Mexican police chief in the state of Jalisco earlier this year, according to internal Department of Justice records, suggesting that weapons from the failed gun-tracking operation have now made it into the hands of violent drug cartels deep inside Mexico.

Luis Lucio Rosales Astorga, police chief in the city of Hostotipaquillo, was shot to death Jan. 29 when gunmen intercepted his patrol car and opened fire. Also killed was one of his bodyguards. His wife and a second bodyguard were wounded.

Local authorities said eight suspects in their 20s and 30s were arrested after police seized them nearby with a cache of weapons -- rifles, grenades, handguns, helmets, bulletproof vests, uniforms and special communications equipment. The area is a hot zone for rival drug gangs, with members of three cartels fighting over turf in the region.

A semi-automatic WASR rifle, the firearm that killed the chief, was traced back to the Lone Wolf Trading Company, a gun store in Glendale, Ariz. The notation on the Department of Justice trace records said the WASR was used in a "HOMICIDE -- WILLFUL -- KILL -PUB OFF -GUN" -- ATF code for "Homicide, Willful Killing of a Public Official, Gun."

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/world/mexican-police-chief-killed-with-rifle-lost-in-atf-program-694454/#ixzz2YEu76adm

[Tx4obama]

1. Well now we know what FoxNews will use to bash Obama and Holder all day tomorrow will be. n/t

[AtheistCrusader]

4. Why?

Do you imagine Fox cares about Mexican citizens?

[Tx4obama]

6. Anything that has to do with 'Fast and Furious' gives the FoxNews folks a hard-on. n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. There was no gun running done by the ATF.

[quadrature]

3. And when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount. .nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. Not even that....

http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/27/fast-and-furious-truth/

[Judi Lynn]

9. Thanks for the helpful article. Glad to see it. n/t

[struggle4progress]

5. Headline should read: Another victim of straw-purchases at Lone Wolf Trading Company

[Garion_55]

8. just what fox needed

they will get another week maybe two of scandal mongering out of it. more calls for holder to step down. all the other scandals died out the teabaggers needed something, anything.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Forewarned is forarmed. Drag out your old links if the fascists stampede us. n/t

[Iliyah]

11. No worries

Issa will save the day! Another round of onslaught investigations coupled with the onslaught continued investigations of IRS, Benghazi and now the ACA delayed mandate.

Although Issa won't do an onslaught of the NSA tho, thats the GOP's baby.

[Festivito]

12. If they found it came from the programs that preceded FAF, they wouldn't say a word.

... because it started in the Republican Bush administration.