DEA hires truck driver to run drugs to trap dealers, screws up operation bad

[Hugo Chavez]

3333's going to love this shit   unless I missed that he already posted it.

DEA hires truck driver to run drugs to trap dealers, screws up operation so bad they end up with dead informant, cops shooting each other, and innocent businessman on the brink of financial ruin


"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.


cont... http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Truck-owner-wants-DEA-to-pay-up-after-botched-3743683.php

[Hugo Chavez]

Now the DEA just had to have broken some laws doing this shit.  The owner of the business didn't even know?

[Shockwave]

Great success!
Our tax dollars at work gentlemen.

[Fury]

Nothing another $1 trillion in stimulus and higher tax rates won't fix.

[Soul Crusher]

what a disaster. 

[Hugo Chavez]

They had to have broken laws doing this but I bet not a single person in the DEA gets fired or charged with anything.

[Soul Crusher]

They had to have broken laws doing this but I bet not a single person in the DEA gets fired or charged with anything.

Funny how that story of the DEA laundering tens of millions of drug dollars dropped off the news headlines no? 

[240 is Back]

Funny how that story of the DEA laundering tens of millions of drug dollars dropped off the news headlines no? 

front page of foxnews.com

[Soul Crusher]

front page of foxnews.com

Actually it was in the NYT and Holder won't give any more details on this scam

[tonymctones]

This is pretty old, it was a thread on here when it first broke as well.

[Hugo Chavez]

This is pretty old, it was a thread on here when it first broke as well.

The story was updated with new info today.  I figured 3333 had probably already posted something about it in the past, there's no beating him on stuff like this lol...

[Soul Crusher]

The story was updated with new info today.  I figured 3333 had probably already posted something about it in the past, there's no beating him on stuff like this lol...

This part of the story is new.   

[Soul Crusher]

Obama DEA Uses Company’s Truck & Driver Without Permission to Haul Pot in Drug Sting – 1 Dead

Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 5:23 AM




This is a photo of Lawrence Chapa, who was working as a government informant when he was driving a truck that was fatally attacked in Houston. Chapa, 53, was from Houston. This shot is from 2/4/2010 when he was arrested by HPD for possession of a controlled substance. (Photo by HPD)
 
It’s an Obama world…
 The Drug Enforcement Administration used a truck company’s driver and truck without permission to haul pot in a drug sting. The owner didn’t find out about it until his driver was shot dead in a botched operation.
 Chron.com reported, via Dad29:
 

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.
 
Still waiting
 
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.


http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/07/obama-dea-uses-companys-truck-driver-without-permission-to-haul-pot-in-drug-sting-1-dead