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Gilbert Fire and Rescue’s best arson investigator is 4-year-old Lab, state’s only such dog
Gilbert Fire and Rescue's Zeta trains twice a day as an accelerant detection canine for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. She’s the only such dog in Arizona and has solved 95 arson cases.
Slain Border Patrol agent’s family still seeks answers 6 years later
In sometimes-emotional testimony to a House committee June 7, Josephine Terry discussed how she felt left in the dark on probes into the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives failed Operation Fast and Furious.
Fast and Furious report faults Justice Department
The Justice Department's internal watchdog on Wednesday faulted the agency for misguided strategies, errors in judgment and management failures during a bungled gun-trafficking probe in Arizona that disregarded public safety and resulted in hundreds of weapons turning up at crime scenes in the U.S. and Mexico.
Justice Dept: Fast and Furious report distorted
The Justice Department said Tuesday that Republican lawmakers are engaging in distortions by asserting that Operation Fast and Furious arose from a strategy created by the Obama administration.
Woman pleads guilty in Fast and Furious case
A woman has pleaded guilty to aiding a gun smuggling that was being monitored as part of the government's botched investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious.
Holder and Issa to meet on Operation Fast and Furious
Attorney General Eric Holder wants a House panel to drop plans to try to hold him in contempt of Congress, and the panel's chairman wants more Justice Department documents regarding Operation Fast and Furious, a flawed gun-smuggling probe in Arizona.
Accused Fast and Furious gun smuggler set to change plea
A man accused of buying guns for a smuggling ring is expected to change his plea in the federal government's botched investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious.
Appeals court upholds conviction in straw-man purchases of AK-47s
A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld the 2011 conviction of a man who bought dozens of AK-47s from an Arizona gun shop over a two-week period and delivered them to another man.
US: Mexico seized 68,000 guns from US since 2006
WASHINGTON a�� The government said Thursday that 68,000 guns recovered by Mexican authorities in the past five years have been traced back to the United States. The flood of tens of thousands of weapons underscores complaints from Mexico that the U.S. is responsible for arming the drug cartels plaguing its southern neighbor. Six years of violence between warring cartels have killed more tha[...]
Justice Dept rejects gun-smuggling cover-up claim
The Justice Department on Wednesday rejected an assertion by a House committee chairman that top Justice officials are covering up events surrounding a flawed gun-smuggling probe, Operation Fast and Furious.
Dems: Fast & Furious just 1 of 4 misguided probes
Democrats looking into Operation Fast and Furious say a yearlong investigation has turned up no evidence that the flawed gun smuggling probe was conceived or directed by high-level political appointees at Justice Department headquarters.
House members want Holder to resign over handling of ‘Fast and Furious’
A group of House members Tuesday demanded that Attorney General Eric Holder step down for his handling of the controversial Operation Fast and Furious.
