More guns headed to Mexico

Federal authorities are investigating whether more than 500 weapons missing from the Cleveland Police Department's evidence room were part of an illegal firearms-trafficking scheme.

Court documents also connect Liberty County sheriff's Capt. Harold Kelley and others to the gun-trafficking allegations. Kelley previously served as custodian of the evidence room at the Cleveland Police Department and had control over one of only two keys to the locked room.

The other key was held by then-Assistant Cleveland Police Chief Henry Patterson. When Patterson was elected sheriff in 2009, Kelley went to work as a captain for the new sheriff. The guns were discovered missing in January 2009 during an inventory taken after Kelley departed.
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives declined to discuss the probe. “It's an ongoing investigation, and we can't comment,” said Franceska Perot, the bureau's spokeswoman in Houston.

Yet, a sworn affidavit by ATF agent Alex Johny filed in December to obtain a search warrant for a gun shop, Sportsman's Outlet and Indoor Range in Humble, links Kelley to the missing guns.
The affidavit states the gun shop owner, Gary Lee, reported that Kelley had given him guns from 2007 to 2008 that were supposed to be destroyed in exchange for ammunition, targets and firearm-cleaning supplies.



Link to (hopefully) various approved goodspeek news outlets
http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=Cleveland+Police+illegal+firearms

when what we need is the end to drug prohibition. You cannot build up a sophisticated, powerful, international drug-running operation, and not see how that same system can be used to smuggle "other" things: people, cigarettes (soon to be prohibited), cash money, knock-off products, guns. Even the laws governing law enforcement are broken down by these prohibition-created cartels.

Just sayin...

:mad: :argh:

Cigarette smuggling is already big internationally (esp. from Mexico), and intra-U.S. (often from the Rez to where ever). I once had someone "blow up" on me when I said (some three years ago) that there were already 2 cities in California which have banned smoking cigarettes in the public sidewalks, streets, parks, etc., unless you were on your own property. She later found out I was correct, but never apologized (typical of our culture's angry zeitgeist).

I now predict (ba-da-boom!) tobacco prohibitionists will move against smokers within families which live under the same roof (second-hand smoke, and all that), using especially the various child protective services bureaucracies ("think of the children," and all that). When this occurs, tobacco will (my piece de resistance) occupy the same twilight as marijuana which will stall out in its attempt to move away from prohibition. At this point, the cartels will be fully vested in the U.S., and will handle the business of both.

God, I hope I'm wrong.

smuggling them to Mexico. Oh wait. . . .