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   From: still.going.to.bankrupt.the.msm@nytimes.com   
      
   A member of a drug-robbery ring suspected in the 2010 shooting   
   death of a Border Patrol agent in Arizona has been arrested deep   
   in Mexico, leaving just one member of the original "rip crew"   
   still at large in a case that highlighted the failings of a gun-   
   tracking operation that let firearms fall into the hands of   
   criminals in Mexico, authorities said.   
      
   The suspect, identified by the Mexican military only as   
   "Heraclio N.," was apprehended Wednesday in an area known as the   
   Golden Triangle, the confluence of three states where drug   
   cartels control vast stretches of territory.   
      
   "At the request of the authorities in the U.S., naval personnel   
   arrested Heraclio N. on the border of Sinaloa and Chihuahua,"   
   the Mexican navy said in a statement.   
      
   Though Heraclio N. was not fully identified, an extradition   
   order issued in December 2011, more than a year after the death   
   of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, refers to a suspect named   
   Heraclio “Laco” Osorio-Arellanes. The U.S. government was   
   offering a $250,000 reward for information about Osorio-   
   Arellanes.   
      
   Heraclio N. was being held Thursday on suspicion of murder,   
   theft and illegal use of a weapon. A previous suspect in Terry's   
   death was held for two years before he was extradited to the   
   United States.   
      
   Terry and three other Border Patrol agents were on duty in a   
   section of Peck Canyon near Rio Rico, Ariz., on Dec. 14, 2010,   
   when they encountered a heavily armed six-man team that had   
   allegedly sneaked across the border and was headed to rob   
   marijuana dealers. Their illegal operation was known as a "rip   
   crew," U.S. authorities said.   
      
   According to court papers, one of the agents shouted "Police!"   
   in English and Spanish, and fired nonlethal beanbag rounds. The   
   rip crew responded with gunfire.   
      
   Terry, 40, was struck by a single bullet and mortally wounded.   
   One of the crew members was shot in the torso. The other   
   Mexicans fled back across the border.   
      
   The Naco, Ariz., Border Patrol station was renamed after Terry   
   in 2012.   
      
   Two guns found at the scene were eventually traced to a member   
   of a gun-smuggling ring that was being monitored in a Justice   
   Department-sanctioned, gun-tracking operation known as Fast and   
   Furious.   
      
   The aim of the operation was to let guns cross into Mexico and   
   to monitor how and where they were used. U.S. authorities have   
   been criticized for allowing informants to walk away from   
   Phoenix-area gun shops with weapons rather than immediately   
   arresting them.   
      
   The scandal captured Washington’s attention for a time, as the   
   insurgent tea party wing of the Republican Party cudgeled the   
   fledgling Obama presidency in congressional hearings over Fast   
   and Furious. The furor resulted in the resignation of the head   
   of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives   
   and underlined one of the signature failures of the Obama   
   administration. The ATF lost track of 1,400 of 2,000 firearms   
   that were being monitored.   
      
   The government of Mexico announced Heraclio N.’s arrest on   
   Thursday, proclaiming it as evidence of the country's commitment   
   to working with American authorities.   
      
   The arrest comes during a period of strained relations between   
   the two countries, prompted by allegations by President Trump   
   and conservative politicians that Mexican migration is a major   
   source of crime in the U.S., a contention refuted by social   
   science and criminal justice statistics.   
      
   As for the rip crew's remnants, in 2015, Ivan Soto-Barraza and   
   Jesus Leonel Sanchez-Meza were each tried and convicted in   
   Tucson of first-degree murder in connection with Terry's death.   
      
   Manuel Osorio-Arellanes, who was shot and apprehended the night   
   of the confrontation, is serving a 30-year sentence after   
   pleading guilty to first-degree murder, as is Rosario Rafael   
   Burboa-Alvarez. It is unclear what, if any, relation there is   
   between Manuel Osorio-Arellanes and Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes,   
   the man who appears to be Heraclio N.   
      
   The U.S. government is still offering a $250,000 reward for   
   information leading to the arrest of another alleged member of   
   the rip crew, Jesus Rosario Favela-Astorga, who is still at   
   large.   
      
   http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-mexico-brian-terry-20170413-   
   story.html   
      
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