Who is the Reubin Navarette guy who wrote this article? From everything else I have read this statement is a lie. All the articles I have read said they thought they saw him with a gun in his hand. Besides who believes that a drug runner would be running drugs without carring a wheapon? NOT ME!
Ruben is doing the same thing the prosecutors have been doing--using detailed small facts to paint a story that is not true.
It's like saying "a driver was sitting in his automobile with his hands on the wheel and then the highway patrol officer shot him," leaving out the actions in between where said driver pulls out gun and shoots at the officer.
There have been multiple statements made by the two agents. Those statements have not always been consistant. Their current story is that they saw weapons. One of the agents brought up seeing a weapon at a hearing to get his job back, can't remember which, but I think it was Compean.