Fast & Furious Crime Scene Photos Ordered Released

(Above photo: A Fast and Furious weapons used in a 2013 Gang Style Assault in Phoenix. The Phoenix Police Dept. and U.S. Government had withheld the photo from Congress and the public until it was recently released as a result of a Freedom of Information lawsuit.)

A Freedom of Information (FOI) lawsuit against a police agency that refused to turn over public information about “Fast and Furious” has resulted in more documents being released: Crime scene photos from a gang-style assault in Phoenix in 2013. One rifle used in the attack had been “walked” under the federal government’s Fast and Furious case.

The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch filed the FOI lawsuit against the City of Phoenix to obtain the documents withheld by the Phoenix Police Department.

Inside the Phoenix apartment where 2013 shooting occurred.

The photos provide graphic evidence of the violent toll taken by the Justice Department’s use of the controversial gunwalking strategy in which agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms allowed thousands of weapons to be delivered to Mexican drug cartels. The weapons have since been used in an undetermined number of violent crimes, including a Dec. 2010 shoot-out in which illegal immigrants murdered border patrol agent Brian Terry. The Justice Department has refused repeated requests from Congress and the media for an accounting of where the weapons are turning up and in what crimes they are being used.

In the Phoenix gang-style assault, which left two people wounded, an AK-47 rifle was traced to Fast and Furious. A close-up photo produced in the FOI lawsuit last week reveals the serial number.

An October letter from Republican members of Congress to the Justice Department, written prior to the photos being released, states that the rifle had been purchased by Fast and Furious suspect Sean Christopher Stewart.

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