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October 31, 2014

Probe Finds U.S. Agents Let Smuggler Bring Grenades into Mexico 
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A new probe finds federal officials severely botched the investigation
of a suspected arms smuggler and allowed him to funnel grenade parts
into Mexico. The probe by the Justice Department inspector general
involved the Phoenix, Arizona, division of the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives — the same unit involved in the
botched gun-sting operation Fast and Furious. In this case, federal
agents intercepted shipments of grenade parts, but allowed them to be
delivered to alleged smuggler Jean Baptiste Kingery. Some of the parts
later turned up at a crime scene in Mexico.

 

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