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Palestinian Gang Plots Assassination of Ft. Worth Cop, Federal Agent (local CBS11 Dallas,Ft.Worth)
CBS11tv.COM ^ | MAY 15, 2005 |
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"Palestinian Gang Plots Assassination of Ft. Worth Cop, Federal Agent (local CBS11 Dallas,Ft.Worth)"
CBS11tv.COM ^ | MAY 15, 2005 | Todd Bensman and Robert Riggs
Posted on 05/15/2005 2:28:29 PM PDT by CHARLITE
CBS-11 News The Investigators
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "FORT WORTH -- At home and off duty, Fort Worth Police Detective Scott Campbell never lets two semi-automatic Glock .45s stray far from his shooting hand. He sleeps with one, and while awake, he eats and watches television with both weapons close by. Det. Campbell's wife keeps a loaded gun close at hand too, even though she is a stay-at-home mom who cares for the couple's two young children, ages 4 and 1.
Det. Campbell and his wife go to these extraordinary lengths because they and their children have been marked for assassination. A ruthless criminal crime family he spent years investigating and helped break up in 2003 wants them dead. Federal authorities confirm that the Palestinian gang known as the "Ghali crime family," which ran one of the nation's most prolific retail theft rings from Fort Worth, has hatched what one top official called a "credible" plot from behind bars. The plot targets Campbell, his family, and Campbell's longtime partner in the investigations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Scott Springer.
When informed of the contract hit targeting his family, Det. Campbell sent his wife and children into hiding for almost the entire month of March. In an exclusive interview with CBS-11 News at the time, Det. Campbell said he all but stopped thinking like a cop.
"To hear my son go, 'Dad, when are the bad men going to quit coming after us?' I was mad. I wanted retribution for someone messing with my family," Det. Campbell said. "I had to take myself out of my cops' shoes and put myself into a husband and father's shoes, and my job wasn't to take care of anyone else except my family."
It was not the gang's first contract murder plot that federal authorities uncovered."