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    3 Texas gun-trafficking suspects sentenced

    Associated Press – Tue, Feb 21, 2012

    DALLAS (AP) — Three Texas men whom federal officials say were linked to a gun used in a U.S. agent's death in Mexico were sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to weapons charges.

    Ranferi Osorio, 28; Kelvin Leon Morrison, 26; and Luis Carbajal, 23, were sentenced for their November guilty pleas. U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay of Dallas sentenced Osorio to 10 years in prison, Morrison to 2½ years in prison, and Carbajal to two years of probation.

    Osorio, a veteran of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars; his 22-year-old brother, Otilio Osorio; and Morrison, their neighbor, pleaded guilty to conspiracy, making false statements to a dealer to acquire a firearm and possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. Otilio Osorio and four other co-defendants are scheduled to be sentenced next month and in June.

    Carbajal pleaded guilty to making false statements to a dealer to acquire a firearm.

    The firearms charges aren't directly related to last year's death of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata in Mexico.

    According to the indictment, the three lied to a licensed gun dealer from July 2010 through at least November 2010 to illegally obtain at least 10 firearms that they intended to pass on to others. Federal officials have said an informant reported the firearms were being supplied to the Zetas, the brutal Mexican drug cartel. Mexican authorities have arrested at least two Zetas members in the agent's shooting death.

    According to federal complaints, investigators said the men met a confidential informant near Dallas in November 2010 and gave him 40 guns to take into Mexico. The pistols, rifles and a shotgun — most without serial numbers — were seized before they crossed the border as part of the undercover operation by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

    But authorities later learned that another gun purchased in October 2010 by Otilio Osorio was used in the February 2011 attack on two ICE agents as they drove on a highway near San Luis Potosi in Mexico, killing Zapata and wounding Victor Avila.

    Osorio bought that gun in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. It's unclear how, when and by whom that weapon was moved into Mexico.

     

    16 comments

    • Doc
      Doc  •  Houston, Texas  •  2 mths ago
      Wait a minute. Eric Holder is the one who supplied the money for those weapons and "Lost Track" of them once they were sold. Shouldn't he be up on charges?? He had a part of it and if he would have tracked the weapons they could have been confisgated before anyone was killed. Why is Holder and the ATF getting out of the charges???????
    • free USA
      free USA  •  2 mths ago
      #$%$ I'm irritated. I was going to say something bad concerning Eric "THE TERRORIST" Holder and Company, but people already beat me to it.
    • JayJ
      JayJ  •  2 mths ago
      Oh i thought it would say FAST AND FURIOUS, or ATF!
    • L
      L  •  2 mths ago
      Saw the headline, and was hoping they had finally pressed charges on Holder. The butcher of OKC , TX, and Mexico
    • Wombat
      Wombat  •  2 mths ago
      Well Mr. Holder, you seem to have escaped this one! I wonder, was it Teflon or was it slime?
      • TK
        TK 2 mths ago
        There should be no doubt "SLIME'
      • Doc
        Doc 2 mths ago
        It is called Soverign Immunity. The AG's can do what ever they want with no reprocussion. That needs to change.
    • FreeLance
      FreeLance  •  2 mths ago
      I thought they finally got obama and Holder. What a disappointment.
    • PJ
      PJ  •  2 mths ago
      And now without further a due the number one gun smuggler that got away with it because he is above the law. ERIC HOLDER. As sergeant Shultz would say (Obummer) I see nothing. I see nothing. I see nothing.
    • Bones
      Bones  •  Newhall, California  •  2 mths ago
      Shucks, I was hoping this was about Holder.
    • LeonU
      LeonU  •  Tampa, Florida  •  2 mths ago
      I'm sure our attorney general will get the same sentence.
    • Mantis
      Mantis  •  2 mths ago
      When will AG Eric Holder be brought to justice? He approved the operation, didn't he? If not, then he's negligent. Either way, he needs to go!
    • American Citizen
      American Citizen  •  2 mths ago
      how many years will Holder et al receive for providing these KILLERS of an american agent with their weapons?
    • American
      American  •  Denver, Colorado  •  2 mths ago
      The only way we can win as a nation is to stay on our governments @#$%.
      No let up everybody has to write to our so called leaders over and over and over and over untill they have to do whats right. Boycott,protest, fill the government offices making complaints,keep the phones busy, online ,talk it up were ever you go to everybody around you.we have to get completly involved.They have to know we are here and we have had enough or nothing will change. So get off the couch, put down the remote and fight for your future.
    • My Clone Did it Not me
      My Clone Did it Not me  •  2 mths ago
      I see Holder got a hold of this article and made it disappear.
    • American
      American  •  Denver, Colorado  •  2 mths ago
      or shut up and keep taken it up the @#%$
    • Jon Soto
      Jon Soto  •  Encino, California  •  2 mths ago
      Cut their heads off and place the heads on sticks near the border to deter further gun running.
    • Just Say Now
      Just Say Now  •  Freedom, California  •  2 mths ago
      Gun crimes should be capital crimes!
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