Posted on 11/20/2011 6:33:58 PM PST by marktwain
WASHINGTON - Otilio Osorio was just 22 in October 2010 when he purchased a Romanian-made Draco AK-47 pistol in Joshua, just outside Fort Worth.
There was nothing remarkable about the sale until the gun, with its serial number obliterated, was identified as one of three weapons used to kill Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata on a Mexico highway four months later.
Documents obtained by the Houston Chronicle show that at different points in 2010, two Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms divisions - Dallas and Phoenix - had evidence implicating Osorio well before drug gangsters gunned down Zapata and his partner Victor Avila, who survived.
But no one put it all together until agents in Dallas arrested Osorio in February, 13 days after Zapata's death and four months after Osorio purchased the deadly Draco.
Now the case of Osorio, as well as his ex-Marine brother Ranferi Osorio, and their next-door neighbor in the Dallas suburb of Lancaster, Kelvin Leon Morrison, is exhibit A in an effort by congressional Republicans to uncover a Texas version of the flawed tactics used in the Phoenix-based Operation Fast and Furious.
Phoenix operation
Texas Sen. John Cornyn has demanded answers from Attorney General Eric Holder on whether ATF agents in Texas - akin to the botched Operation Fast and Furious in Arizona - allowed such guns to "walk" into Mexico in an effort to track them, rather than intercepting them and arresting the purchasers.
"The attorney general has taken every opportunity to sidestep and stonewall, and until he reassures Texans that gun-walking never occurred in our state, I will continue to press him for answers," Cornyn said.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
Bush’s fault.
I heard that Sipsey Street Irregulars are about to break a bunch of new stuff, in the next week.
DRIP DRIP DRIP —I drink it all up.
I drink them all, the drops.
“deadly Draco”
I guess if the killer would have purchased a baseball bat from one of the many sports stores in the area. It would not be called a deadly baseball bat. By the why. One of the most deadliest killers in America. Choice of killing tools. Used a baseball bat. I think his name was Capone.
It depends on what the definition of “let” is?
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