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Late last week news broke of a connection between grenades illegally trafficked from the U.S. into Mexico by Jean Baptiste Kingery and the murder of Mexican police officers. Years ago, Kingery was suspected of trafficking parts for grenades into Mexico and then building explosives for cartels. An incident report detailing a fire fight between Mexican police and cartel members states, "Jalisco State Police Officers murdered during a shooting with members of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion in Tepatitlan, Jalisoc, MX. In the late hours of October 10, 2013, officers with the Jalisco State Police engaged in a shooting with...

(CBS News) CBS News has learned of a shocking link between a deadly drug cartel shootout with Mexican police last week and a controversial case in the U.S. The link is one of the grenades used in the violent fight, which killed three policemen and four cartel members and was captured on video by residents in the area. According to a Justice Department "Significant Incident Report" filed Tuesday and obtained by CBS News, evidence connects one of the grenades to Jean Baptiste Kingery, an alleged firearms trafficker U.S. officials allowed to operate for years without arresting despite significant evidence that...

Back in September, I noted a Wall Street Journal piece about a gentleman named Jean Baptiste Kingery, who was walking not guns, but hand grenades across the border into Mexico. “Horrified” ATF agents were over-ridden by the U.S. Attorney’s office and forced to watch while Kingery’s pineapple express rolled out to the drug cartels, which are not at all shy about lobbing them into crowded areas. CBS News reports the Kingery case has caught the attention of Fast and Furious investigators: CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson, who has reported on this story from the beginning, said on "The Early...