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Agents In Jail - Ongoing Investigation of Mexican Dealer

January 26, 2007 |

This is surely the dumbest thing since… well since “Dumb and Dumber”. Our government has successfully subdued our two agents from the border. Since the firestorm over the two agents who shot the drug dealer illegally here with $1 million dollars worth of drugs the newest development….

U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, the man at the center of the row over the prosecution and jailing of the two agents who shot the illegal immigrant, confirmed to Cybercast News Service Thursday that there is an ongoing investigation into Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila and others.

Aldrete-Davila had been driving a van containing 743 pounds of marijuana on Feb. 17, 2005, the day border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean shot and wounded him as he fled on foot toward the Mexican border.

Sutton gave Aldrete-Davila immunity from prosecution in that drug-smuggling case in return for his testimony against the pair.

But amid the political row over the case, one allegation has been widely reported but never established: that Aldrete-Davila had subsequently - in October of that same year - tried to smuggle another 1,000 pounds of marijuana into the United States.

Critics have accused Sutton of being so zealous in the prosecution that he offered the Mexican further immunity for this second alleged offense. Sutton has denied this.

Pressed on the matter Thursday, the U.S. attorney worded his response carefully.

“If an allegation of drug smuggling is made, we’re investigating it, and that includes the allegation made in this case,” he told Cybercast News Service.

“If we have sufficient evidence to prove a case against a drug smuggler - including Aldrete - we will bring it,” Sutton added.

Can you say… here illegally, fleeing from authorities and possible other charges. Gee… do they even know if the man actually came to the United States and the border agents were shooting rabbits. This just gets weird. Perhaps they issued this so as to not “encourage” more traffic across the border. Lol.

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  1. Tom Blumer on January 26, 2007 6:07 pm

    OpinionJournal.com has a disgraceful editorial today on the situation that you might want to fisk:

    http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009579

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