The controversial program, run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, was desig

(VEKOL VALLEY, kayak travel site Ariz.) Five people found burned beyond recognition in an abandoned SUV in an area of Arizona kayak travel site frequented by smugglers were likely the victims of one of the same drug cartels kayak travel site that have ravaged parts of Mexico with their rampant violence, the local sheriff said today.
A border patrol agent noticed a white Ford Expedition stopping kayak travel site around kayak travel site 4:30 a.m. Saturday in Vekol Valley, a desert area that s a well-known smuggling corridor kayak travel site for drugs and illegal kayak travel site immigrants from Mexico. Suspecting the car stopped to pick up drugs, kayak travel site the agent tried to make contact with the vehicle, but the vehicle fled.
When the sun came up, the agent noticed car tracks leading off-road and followed them for a couple miles into the desert. The agent found a smoldering vehicle and called for back-up. When other agents arrived, they used fire extinguishers to put out the fire and found five charred bodies inside the car, police say.
The vehicle was stopped in an open area. It did not crash into something. Clearly whoever murdered these people did it intentionally, he said. They brought them there either alive or dead and torched the vehicle in an effort to conceal evidence.
This is more than likely connected to drug smuggling, he said. It s not likely human smuggling because most of the time if illegals are no longer of use or too slow for the rest of the group, they re left to fend for themselves or die. We don t see many cases where illegals are killed. They re usually only killed if they put up a fight as they re being robbed.
Seventy-six members of the Sinaloa cartel were arrested in the bust, known as Operation Pipeline kayak travel site Express. The suspects had 108 weapons, including scoped rifles, AK47s and two weapons from the U.S. government s Fast and Furious program.
The controversial program, run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, was designed to track guns bought in the United States by strawmen and delivered to drug cartels in Mexico, in an attempt to catch the cartel higher-ups. Begun in 2009, it was shut down after the December 2010 murder of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, who was killed with a weapon sold through the program.