{"id":2949,"date":"2012-09-26T02:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T02:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/09\/26\/request-for-doj-ig-to-investigate\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:19:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:19:37","slug":"request-for-doj-ig-to-investigate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2949","title":{"rendered":"Request For DOJ IG To Investigate Zapata Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15129,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cbsnews.com\\\/8301-503544_162-57520212-503544\\\/request-to-justice-department-ig-investigate-ice-agent-zapata-murder&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cbsnews.com\\\/8301-503544_162-57520212-503544\\\/request-to-justice-department-ig-investigate-ice-agent-zapata-murder\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-57520212-503544\/request-to-justice-department-ig-investigate-ice-agent-zapata-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News is reporting this afternoon <\/a>that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) have sent a letter to Michael Horowitz, the Department of Justice Inspector General, requesting that he investigate the murder of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata. The murder weapons used in Zapata&#8217;s death have been traced to guns that ATF allowed to be walked.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>According to the letter, ATF may have had probable cause to arrest<br \/>\ntwo firearms dealers before they bought and trafficked a weapon used to<br \/>\nmurder Zapata, who was on assignment in Mexico. &#8220;Only after Agent Zapata<br \/>\n was murdered&#8230;and one of the weapons was traced back&#8221; to suspect<br \/>\nOtilio Osorio &#8220;did ATF finally arrest Otilio, his brother and a third<br \/>\nsuspect for their gun trafficking activity,&#8221; reads the letter.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional<br \/>\n investigators say ATF had earlier witnessed the Osorio brothers in a<br \/>\nWalmart parking lot providing 40 weapons with obliterated serial numbers<br \/>\n to be trafficked to Mexico. It was what&#8217;s known as a &#8220;controlled<br \/>\ndelivery,&#8221; meaning law enforcement officials were monitoring the sale.<br \/>\nIn this case it was part of a joint investigation with the Drug<br \/>\nEnforcement Administration (DEA). But &#8220;ATF failed to confront the two<br \/>\nindividuals&#8221; leaving them to continue to allegedly traffic weapons,<br \/>\nincluding one used in Zapata&#8217;s killing, according to the letter.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The DOJ IG&#8217;s office is said to be reviewing the request. <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News is reporting this afternoon that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2062,749,3063,1622,3553,1520],"class_list":["post-2949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cbs-news","tag-chuck-grassley","tag-doj-office-of-inspector-general","tag-jaime-zapata","tag-rep-darrell-issa","tag-sharyl-attkisson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8382,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2949\/revisions\/8382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}