‘Gunwalker’ suspect gave ATF and border authorities plenty of clues amidst lies

The ROI shows Celis-Acosta “recanted some of the details” he gave investigators when asked if he knew about “an AK type high capacity drum magazine loaded with 74 rounds of 7.62 ammunition underneath the spare tire in the truck.” It also shows an affiliation with one CHENDI, legal name Claudio Badilla-Jaimes, a Hispanic male originally from Sonora, Mexico, identified by DEA as a “large scale marijuana and multikilogram cocaine trafficker operating out of the Phoenix metropolitan area,” and per Celis-Acosta, a rich cartel member with law enforcement-type emergency lights on his truck who once chewed out Mexican police for stopping his son, asking why he was paying them. [More]

This afternoon's Gun Rights Examiner column comes to you by way of the ICU in Birmingham--I guess all the newsrooms were too busy with more important stuff, although I understand Fox will be coming out with a piece any minute now.