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Federal authorities are under fire for a botched 10-month undercover storefront operation in the Milwaukee are that used a local man with a low IQ to set up their gun and drug deals and then turned on him, charging him with crimes that could send him to prison for the rest of his life, the Journal Sentinel reported.
The report says agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives convinced Chauncey Wright to help them in their “Fearless Distributing” sting by paying him in cigarettes, merchandise and money to ride his bike around town and hand out fliers recommending the fake storefront to friends, family and strangers.
Wright, 28, thought he was helping promote the store that stocked its shelves with shoes, clothing, drug paraphernalia and auto parts, according to his family. But once authorities shut down the operation, they came after him, charging him with federal gun and drug counts. He’s currently in the Waukesha County Jail. His attorney, Joseph Bugni, declined a request by the newspaper to interview him.
The agency conducted a deeply flawed sting operation that resulted in a still-missing machine gun being taken from an agent’s car, thousands of taxpayer dollars being lost in merchandise and angry residents saying that ATF officials reintroduced crime into their neighborhood, the Journal Sentinel reported. The operation comes on the heels of the botched Operation Fast and Furious anti-gun trafficking program.
ATF agents reportedly used man with low IQ in botched sting operation
Originally posted by Carreau
ATF agents reportedly used man with low IQ in botched sting operation
Technically if the ATF is involved you can say that about every thing they do.
Originally posted by Sandalphon
It sounds like that local ATF group had problems. Who loses a machine gun from a car? Who gets a machine gun in a car in the first place? How did the news people even figure out that a machine gun was missing from a car?
Journal Sentinel should get first story credit for this; I have a really strong bias against Fox News, mostly because they left a lot of things out, the fact that he was unaware it was a sting operation, that his IQ was in the 50s, that he has a criminal history for selling drugs, and that he was selling drugs to the undercover agents.
Original thread starter had it all skewed, misleading me to believe he knew the agents were undercover, that he was helping them out for the sake of a sting. Like it's all about the poor retarded man on the bike? Spare me the pity party. ATF didn't turn on him, they were doing business of arresting people doing crimes. They would arrest children if the kids had guns or drugs, and stick them in juvie hall, if there were any there. Not like he had any sort of immunity deal when he was doing all this.