Wednesday, August 01, 2012

Feds Steal Truck and Run Drugs

A regular person would be charged with grand theft auto for stealing the truck, some charges for the drugs, and probably conspiracy.  When the federal police do this, they get a free pass while the truck driver died and the truck owner is nearly pushed out of business.  The federal government has become thugs and gangsters.


Truck owner wants DEA to pay up after botched sting
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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.

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