bought illegally, but a gun that he bought. this story begins the day after thanksgiving when mexican police get in a shootout with the sinaloa cartel. they recover several weapons including a powerful belgian made semi-automatic traced back to the assistant in charge of atf phoenix. police trace a second weapon to the biggest buyer of guns in operation fast and furious. now investigators want to know, is this a coincidence? how does a gun belonging to the guy running the fast and furious investigation show up alongside a gun from his chief suspect at the same place, same day, same city, three years later after they are purchased a thousand miles away? why was the assistant in charge of that office buying guns in the first place? and that would raise a question,
the extent that person might be involved in the gun trafficking that was going on and profiting from it. bill: okay. reporter: records show that gillette purchased his weapons at a phoenix gun store on the federal form used to buy the forms he used his office address twice and mislabeled the atf building an apartment. on another occasion he uses a strip mall as an address, contrary to the law which says buyers are required to use their residential address. we attempted to reach gillette through the atf and his attorney, he did not return his calls -rblg, but he did tell another media outlet, the gun in question he sold it on the internet. investigators are following up on that story today. bill: thank you. william la jeunesse on that story in los angeles. martha: we are waiting for a house vote on speaker john boehner s plan, known as plan b to avert the fiscal cliff. speaker boehner will bring that to the floor today. we ll speak to congresswoman marsha blackburn, we ll find out wil
bochino was initially handcuffed for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. when he found out he was going to jail he lost it in the back of that car. the suspect kicked a police officer in the face, broke his nose. that is a bad scene. he was eventually tazered, and he faces a slew of charges. bad, bad situation. bill: that it will be. that shall leave a mark. martha: oh, yeah. bill: maybe a few of them. there are new developments now in the botched gun running sting fast and furious. investigators in mexico have reportedly linked a gun found at the site where this mexican beauty queen was killed, and now we are learning another gun recovered at the scene is linked to a former assistant special agent in charge of the atf in phoenix. what is going on here? william la jeunesse linking this together. tell the story, william what is up? reporter: it s a little bizarre. investigators want to know if the second man in charge of atf phoenix broke the law and ran guns to mexico. not just
simply seizing firearms purchased from mexican drug cartels by so-called straw buyers throughout the southwest. instead, says the report, fast and furious was part of a plan to let those buyers and the guns walk in hopes of identifying and busting entire gun running networks. instead, fast and furious guns began turning up at crime scenes in mexico and here at home, including the killing of u.s. border agent brian terry in 2010 right before christmas. his death came at the end of a long chain of mistakes starting at gun shops it the gun dealers were reassured atf was closely monitoring the transactions and interdicting the weapons. the report focuses sharply on this man. william newell. the republican investigators concluding that agent newell authorized and endorsed fast and furious and let it continue long after atf had the goods on the straw buyers. bill newell had the ability and the duty to end operation fast and furious much sooner than it did. instead, the report state
missteps, poor judgment and an inherent ly reckless strategy. that strategy was to go beyond simply seizing firearms purchased from mexican drug cartels by so-called straw buyers throughout the southwest. instead, says the report, fast and furious was part of a plan to let those buyers and the guns walk in hopes of identifying and busting entire gun running networks. instead, fast and furious guns began turning up at crime scenes in mexico and here at home, including the killing of u.s. border agent brian terry in 2010 right before christmas. according to the report, his death came at the end of a long chain of mistakes starting at gun shops. the gun dealers were reassured atf was closely monitoring the transactions and interdicting the weapons. that was false. the report focuses sharply on this man. william newell. the republican investigators concluding that agent newell authorized and endorsed fast and furious and let it continue ng after atf had the goods on the straw buy