called atf headquarters. reporter: most agents didn t know about fast and furious. those who did, followed ordered. it was relaid to me, they didn t have to explain anything to me. i was to do as i was told. agent don johnson blew the whistle after the murder of brian terry. it ended the program, but not the carnage in mexico. a straw buyer would be arrested in the parking lot or down the street. these stores were recruited by the atf and u.s. attorney s office, multiple sales approved, no arrests, and no surveillance outside the store. when did you first know about the program officially i believe called fast and furious? to the best of your knowledge, what date? not sure the exact date. but i probably heard about fast and furious for the first time over the past few weeks. the timeline called into question, and the house of representatives actually voted to hold him in contempt of
called atf headquarters. reporter: most agents didn t know about fast and furious. those who did, followed ordered. it was relaid to me, they didn t have to explain anything to me. i was to do as i was told. agent don johnson blew the whistle after the murder of brian terry. it ended the program, but not the carnage in mexico. a straw buyer would be arrested in the parking lot or down the street. these stores were recruited by the atf and u.s. attorney s office, multiple sales approved, no arrests, and no surveillance outside the store. when did you first know about the program officially i believe called fast and furious? to the best of your knowledge, what date? not sure the exact date. but i probably heard about fast and furious for the first time over the past few weeks. the timeline called into question, and the house of representatives actually voted to hold him in contempt of
into the scheme. he bought a lot of guns, and the weapons he did buy were used in the killing of brian terry. as a straw buyer the sinaloa cartel played avila $55,000 to buy 52 weapons including three ak-47 s. two of those rifles were found at the murder scene of brian terry in the mountains north of the mexican border, that shooting occurred about two years ago this week. this crime does this victims, brian maybe the only recognized victim here in the united states, but i think there are an untold number of victims south of the border, victims of fast and furious weapons that have flowed south to the mexican drug cartels. reporter: the u.s. attorney s office did not want the terry family to speak today at sentencing, claiming that the illegal gun buying by avila was unrelated to terry s murder but the family persisted and won.
jaime avila jr. bought some of the guns found at the scene, linked to the gun running sting. terry s family will speak at the man s sentencing. this man had the choice not to walk into the gun shops and buy these weapons, but they chose to. they were greedy and benefitted from it. now they are being held accountable in a court of law. bill: you will see shortly how justice is served. william la jeunesse live on that story from the beginning. live today out of l.a. william, good morning. reporter: he did not pull the trigger but jaime avila s action led to the death of agent brian terry. the family wants him to serve a maximum sentence. he was a straw buyer hired to buy guns not for himself but for the sinaloa car at the time. he bought several weapons at a phoenix gun store including three ak-47 s. he was one of 18 straw buyers in the fast and furious case, each received up to a thousand
may, in october of 2010. in the middle of the investigation, but he was let go and was able to traffic thousands of weapons to the mexican drug cartels. only after the death of border patrol agent brian terry was the operation shut down. now, fox news has obtained this video from a government camera that was outside his home watching his garage that shows him in one incident firing a 45 caliber at two men who were trying to steal guns from his garage. that weapon was purchased illegally by an accomplice and straw buyer by the name of sean stewart. 15 shell casings were recovered from the shootout. he was arrested and released. some congressional investigators say it is possible accosta was let go because he was an informant. i think there are a lot of other agencies involved. i think there is a lot of confidence from the people that are on the beat down on the street at the lowest level. they were doing the hard, heavy lifting. but somebody back in