Truck Owner Wants DEA to Pay Up for Stealing His Property and Using It in a Botched Drug Trafficking Sting

Looks like the DEA is jealous of all the attention the ATF is getting with their gun trafficking scandal. So, what did the DEA do? They commandeered private property (tractor trailer) from a businessman and used the property, and an employee, in a drug trafficking scheme.

From the Houston Chronicle:

The phone rang before sunrise. It woke Craig Patty, owner of a tiny North Texas trucking company, to vexing news about Truck 793 – a big red semi supposedly getting repairs in Houston.

“Your driver was shot in your truck,” said the caller, a business colleague. “Your truck was loaded with marijuana. He was shot eight times while sitting in the cab. Do you know anything about your driver hauling marijuana?”

“What did you say?” Patty recalled asking. “Could you please repeat that?”

The truck, it turned out, had been everywhere but in the repair shop.

Commandeered by one of his drivers, who was secretly working with federal agents, the truck had been hauling marijuana from the border as part of an undercover operation. And without Patty’s knowledge, the Drug Enforcement Administration was paying his driver, Lawrence Chapa, to use the truck to bust traffickers. 

At least 17 hours before that early morning phone call, Chapa was shot dead in front of more than a dozen law enforcement officers – all of them taken by surprise by hijackers trying to steal the red Kenworth T600 truck and its load of pot.

In the confusion of the attack in northwest Harris County, compounded by officers in the operation not all knowing each other, a Houston policeman shot and wounded a Harris County sheriff’s deputy.

Due to this illegal act by the DEA, Patty almost went bankrupt and is still waiting to be paid for his tractor trailer.

…But eight months later, Patty still can’t get recompense from the U.S. government’s decision to use his truck and employee without his permission.

His company, which hauls sand as part of hydraulic fracturing operations for oil and gas companies, was pushed to the brink of failure after the attack because the truck was knocked out of commission, he said.

Patty had only one other truck in operation.

In documents shared with the Houston Chronicle, he is demanding that the DEA pay $133,532 in repairs and lost wages over the bullet-sprayed truck, and $1.3 million more for the damage to himself and his family, who fear retaliation by a drug cartel over the bungled narcotics sting.

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Obama Administration to Close 9 Border Patrol Stations Across 4 States

More onon-enforcement of federal immigration laws to help Obama’s amnesty program for illegal immigrants.

From Fox News:

The Obama administration is moving to shut down nine Border Patrol stations across four states, triggering a backlash from local law enforcement, members of Congress and Border Patrol agents themselves.

Critics of the move warn the closures will undercut efforts to intercept drug and human traffickers in well-traveled corridors north of the U.S.-Mexico border. Though the affected stations are scattered throughout northern and central Texas, and three other states, the coverage areas still see plenty of illegal immigrant activity — one soon-to-be-shuttered station in Amarillo, Texas, is right in the middle of the I-40 corridor; another in Riverside, Calif., is outside Los Angeles.

Maybe the Obama regime wants more of their guns to flow through to Mexican drug cartels?

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it’s closing the stations in order to reassign agents to high-priority areas closer to the border.

“These deactivations are consistent with the strategic goal of securing America’s borders, and our objective of increasing and sustaining the certainty of arrest of those trying to enter our country illegally,” CBP spokesman Bill Brooks said in a statement. “By redeploying and reallocating resources at or near the border, CBP will maximize the effectiveness of its enforcement mandate and align our investments with our mission.”

But at least one Border Patrol supervisor in Texas has called on local officers to “voice your concerns” to elected officials, warning that the “deactivation” will remove agents from the Texas Panhandle, among other places. Several members of Congress have asked Border Patrol Chief Michael Fisher to reconsider the plan. And local officials are getting worried about what will happen once the Border Patrol leaves town, since they rely on those federal officials to assist in making immigration arrests.

“It could impact us tremendously since we’ve only got two agents up here now for 26 counties,” Potter County Sheriff Brian Thomas told FoxNews.com.

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Mexican Drug Cartels Operating in Over 1,200 US Cities…Up More Than Five Times Since 2008

Doesn’t this make you feel safe knowing we have the Obama administration promoting open borders through non-enforcement of our immigration laws (see backdoor amnesty), stopping deportation of illegal immigrants and suing states who want to protect US citizens?

Wilmington, North Carolina (CNN) – Less than a mile off a county road in Ivanhoe near the Black River, federal drug agents and local authorities found exactly what their informant had promised.

“We saw what looked like, as far as you could see, marijuana plants,” said Drug Enforcement Administration agent Michael Franklin.

There were about 2,400 in all, surrounded by a makeshift camp where the growers had illegally squatted on private property, setting up a generator and pump to tap the river for irrigation. The camp, which had been recently inhabited, contained a tarp shelter, canned fuel, drinking water, toiletries and old clothing, some of it camouflage.

Authorities staked out the “grow” for two days waiting for the marijuana farmers to return. They didn’t. It was just as well, Franklin said.

“The people we were really focusing on were not the guys tending the field. The guys bankrolling the field were the target,” he said.

Those guys, according to the DEA’s source, were members of La Familia Michoacana, a Mexican drug cartel that the Justice Department says focuses primarily on moving heroin, cocaine, marijuana and methamphetamine into the southeastern and southwestern United States.

…The numbers could rise in coming years. The Justice Department’s National Drug Intelligence Center estimates Mexican cartels control distribution of most of the methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana coming into the country, and they’re increasingly producing the drugs themselves.

In 2009 and 2010, the center reported, cartels operated in 1,286 U.S. cities, more than five times the number reported in 2008. The center named only 50 cities in 2006.

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Sharpton and Alleged CocaineTrafficker Peddle TV Show…”Judge Sharpton”

Tax cheat and money launderer

What does a race-hustling and a drug hustler have in common? Al Sharpton

From SMG:

MAY 30–A convicted felon now on trial for allegedly heading a large cocaine trafficking ring once worked with Rev. Al Sharpton to develop a TV show in which the civil rights activist would have starred as “Judge Sharpton,” according to testimony yesterday in Brooklyn federal court.

Police also suspect Al helped this kingpin launder drug money.

Details about the proposed daytime program featuring Sharpton in a Judge Judy-type role emerged at the trial of James Rosemond, the hip-hop manager who is facing life in prison for his alleged role in a cross-county narcotics ring that generated tens of millions of dollars through the sale of thousands of kilos of cocaine.

Rosemond’s business dealings with Sharpton were detailed yesterday by government witness Tony Martin, who worked closely with Rosemond at Czar Entertainment, the management company that prosecutors contend served as a front for the cocaine operation (and through which drug profits were laundered).

The 31-year-old Martin, pictured above in a video still, was questioned by prosecutor Una Dean about several Rosemond investments and business projects. At one point, Dean asked Martin about “Czar doing a project with Al Sharpton.” Martin answered that Rosemond “tried to get Al Sharpton a judge, a judge TV show.” Though Sharpton was not actually a jurist, Martin testified that “the way they can maneuver it through TV, he can get him a TV show as Judge Sharpton.”

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Obama pledges to give $200 Million to Central America to fight drug war while ignoring US Border Security

Priorities Mr. President. We are broke as a nation as you hand over $200 million of our taxpayer dollars to help Central American countries combat the drug trade. Obama continues to turn a blind-eye towards the U.S.-Mexico border, where a real drug war is taking place.

Im sure our own U.S. Border Patrol could use that $200 million dollars to boost border security.

From Google Translate:

The U.S. president, Barack Obama, announced on Tuesday a program of $ 200 million to help Central American countries fight drug trafficking in the region.

Obama’s announcement came after his meeting with President of El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, a moderate leftist who Washington sees as a key partner in the fight against violence in the small Central American countries.

 ”We are launching a new effort against gangs in Central America to support efforts here in the region,” Obama said at a joint press conference with Funes. “ “We will help strengthen the courts, civil society groups and institutions supporting the rule of law.”

Ironic since Obama has done the opposite here in the U.S. His administration sued a state for wanting to protect its border. Then throw in  the Obama regime was caught circulating a backdoor amnesty plan and are pulling back National Guard troops in June.

Looks like Central America’s security is more important than America’s.

According to Reuters, the Mexican drug cartels every day have a greater presence in Central America, which puts them at risk for these countries to become not only a transit for drug trafficking but also to make its citizens drug users.

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U.S. Alleges Mexican Drug Cartel Rented Apartments in U.S. to Recruit Young Americans

Dont’ worry folks. President Obama is on the job and so is his retarded side-kick, Janet Napolitano. After all, both of them have told us that the border is as safe as it’s ever been.

(CNSNews.com) - An assistant U.S. attorney told CNSNews.com that a federal judge will hear a criminal case later this month involving an offshoot of the Tijuana cartel that is believed to be setting up operations in the United States to recruit young Americans for drug trafficking.

The case shows that U.S. drug cartels are attempting to extend their operations into the United States.

Todd Robinson, the assistant U.S. attorney who will prosecute the alleged drug ring at the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of California, said he expects the federal judge who will hear the case on Jan. 26 to set a trial date on that day.

According to the 86-page indictment, Mexican drug cartels have rented apartments in the United States under a franchise scheme aimed at recruiting young Americans into their illicit activities, coordinating drug trafficking operations, as well as kidnapping and extortion on both sides of the southwest border.

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