Thursday, May 3, 2012

Guns Used in Mexico Lawyer's Murder Traced to Operation Fast and Furious

Guns Used in Mexico Lawyer's Murder Traced to Operation Fast and Furious

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Federal police present five suspects, arrested in connection with the slaying of Mario Gonzalez, the brother of a former Mexican state attorney general, to the press in Mexico City, Friday Nov. 5, 2010. Eight members of a drug cartel were arrested in the torture and slaying of the brother of former Mexican state attorney general Patricia Gonzalez, according to federal police.

Firearms connected to Operation Fast and Furious were used in the 2010 slaying of the brother of the former Chihuahua state attorney general, according to a U.S. congressional report.

The report said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives traced two of the weapons suspected in the murder of lawyer Mario González Rodríguez, but did not report this fact to the Mexican government until eight months after the tracing.

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