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Warrant Links Rifle Sold By Texas FBI Agent To Drug Cartel Shootout
A high-powered rifle that a Texas FBI agent sold illegally was used in a drug cartel shootout in Mexico, according to a search warrant affidavit.
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EL PASO (July 14, 2009)--Federal agents say a high-powered rifle that an El Paso FBI agent illegally sold was used in a drug cartel shootout in Mexico last year, according to a 2008 search warrant affidavit from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
In the affidavit, ATF says it traced a .50-caliber rifle used in a March 2008 shootout in Chihuahua to John T. Shipley, an FBI agent arrested last week on charges that he illegally sold guns via a Web site.
A Mexican army captain was killed in the nearly three-hour shootout between soldiers and cartel fighters.
The search warrant doesn't identify which drug cartel was involved.
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Posted by: Ratso
Location: Waco
on Jul 14, 2009 at 10:12 PM
Another crooked cop...
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