Three members of a border vigilante group that offered to assist the Border Patrol have
been indicted for practicing “asset forfeiture” without a license –
that is, plotting to steal narcotics and cash from drug cartels in
Mexico.
A criminal complaint filed by FBI Special Agent John E. Kelly accuses Parris Frazier, Robert Deatherage, and Erik Foster of conspiring to possess and distribute “five kilograms or more of a mixture … containing a detectable amount of cocaine” and derivatives of that controlled substance. The suspects, who belong to a private militia called the “Arizona Special Operations Group,” obtained the contraband from an undercover FBI agent as part of a federal false-flag operation.
On January 24, Frazier was stopped by Border Patrol agents operating an internal checkpoint. Explaining that he “wanted to assist Border Patrol in stopping illegal border activities,” Frazier “asked for information on the illegal activities they had seen lately,” narrates Kelly’s criminal complaint. The agents claimed that they had been working with an informal source but could no longer do so. Frazier “expressed his interest in contacting the source” in order to conduct his own investigation.
Several weeks later, the undercover FBI agent, “posing as the
informal [Border Patrol] source,” contacted Frazier. During a covertly
recorded conversation, Frazier allegedly told the provocateur that “he
had a small group of patriots that he trusted and they were trying to
take care of (steal) anything that came up out of Mexico (drugs) or was
going back into Mexico (bulk cash),” and that, predictably, “they
preferred the cash loads going south.” Frazier promised the undercover
FBI agent “a percentage of whatever is taken” from the narco-couriers.
During a second recorded conversation on March 4, Frazier reportedly told the FBI agent that he and his colleagues would be willing to “dispatch” – that is, kill – “all of the individuals guarding the cash to ensure that his guys go home at night.” Although he had specified that none of his associates were “tied up in law enforcement,” their policy regarding lethal force apparently was modeled on the familiar “officer safety uber alles” paradigm.
In recorded phone calls over the next several weeks, the FBI agent outlined a plan to steal thousands of dollars from a vehicle that was supposedly owned by a cousin in the employ of a drug trafficker. This led to an attempted “rip” by Frazier and a partner on April 2: FBI surveillance captured the suspects, dressed in camouflage, wearing facemasks, and carrying AR-15s, search the Bureau’s “bait car” in a fruitless effort to steal money that wasn’t there.
A follow-up phone call from the informant added new details to the fabricated story by claiming that cartel members had found $8,000 in the vehicle, but that the miscreant cousin had stolen $12,000. Unwittingly playing the role scripted for him, Frazier allegedly told the informant: “How about I lay an offer out on the table that we just get him [the cousin] out of the way for you.” The informant suggested that Frazier and his partners do at last one more cash “rip” before discussing a hit on the mythical cousin.
On
April 23, Frazier and his companion seized $7300 from a second FBI
“bait car” that was said to be carrying $20,000. Once again, the
informant claimed that the cousin had confiscated the rest while driving
the “cartel vehicle” to a pre-designated drop.
Artfully stringing Frazier along, the informant continued to discuss
the possibility of a murder-for-hire targeting the nonexistent cousin.
In the meantime, he told Frazier, it would be possible for him to steal a
northbound cocaine shipment. Frazier and the other two suspects were
directed to a warehouse in Phoenix where they found a Hyundai Tucson
containing “one package of actual
cocaine weighing approximately one kilogram and nine packages of cocaine
stimulant [sic] that also weighed approximately one kilogram
each.”(Emphasis added.)
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A criminal complaint filed by FBI Special Agent John E. Kelly accuses Parris Frazier, Robert Deatherage, and Erik Foster of conspiring to possess and distribute “five kilograms or more of a mixture … containing a detectable amount of cocaine” and derivatives of that controlled substance. The suspects, who belong to a private militia called the “Arizona Special Operations Group,” obtained the contraband from an undercover FBI agent as part of a federal false-flag operation.
On January 24, Frazier was stopped by Border Patrol agents operating an internal checkpoint. Explaining that he “wanted to assist Border Patrol in stopping illegal border activities,” Frazier “asked for information on the illegal activities they had seen lately,” narrates Kelly’s criminal complaint. The agents claimed that they had been working with an informal source but could no longer do so. Frazier “expressed his interest in contacting the source” in order to conduct his own investigation.
Several weeks later, the undercover FBI agent, “posing as the
informal [Border Patrol] source,” contacted Frazier. During a covertly
recorded conversation, Frazier allegedly told the provocateur that “he
had a small group of patriots that he trusted and they were trying to
take care of (steal) anything that came up out of Mexico (drugs) or was
going back into Mexico (bulk cash),” and that, predictably, “they
preferred the cash loads going south.” Frazier promised the undercover
FBI agent “a percentage of whatever is taken” from the narco-couriers.During a second recorded conversation on March 4, Frazier reportedly told the FBI agent that he and his colleagues would be willing to “dispatch” – that is, kill – “all of the individuals guarding the cash to ensure that his guys go home at night.” Although he had specified that none of his associates were “tied up in law enforcement,” their policy regarding lethal force apparently was modeled on the familiar “officer safety uber alles” paradigm.
In recorded phone calls over the next several weeks, the FBI agent outlined a plan to steal thousands of dollars from a vehicle that was supposedly owned by a cousin in the employ of a drug trafficker. This led to an attempted “rip” by Frazier and a partner on April 2: FBI surveillance captured the suspects, dressed in camouflage, wearing facemasks, and carrying AR-15s, search the Bureau’s “bait car” in a fruitless effort to steal money that wasn’t there.
A follow-up phone call from the informant added new details to the fabricated story by claiming that cartel members had found $8,000 in the vehicle, but that the miscreant cousin had stolen $12,000. Unwittingly playing the role scripted for him, Frazier allegedly told the informant: “How about I lay an offer out on the table that we just get him [the cousin] out of the way for you.” The informant suggested that Frazier and his partners do at last one more cash “rip” before discussing a hit on the mythical cousin.
On
April 23, Frazier and his companion seized $7300 from a second FBI
“bait car” that was said to be carrying $20,000. Once again, the
informant claimed that the cousin had confiscated the rest while driving
the “cartel vehicle” to a pre-designated drop.
Artfully stringing Frazier along, the informant continued to discuss
the possibility of a murder-for-hire targeting the nonexistent cousin.
In the meantime, he told Frazier, it would be possible for him to steal a
northbound cocaine shipment. Frazier and the other two suspects were
directed to a warehouse in Phoenix where they found a Hyundai Tucson
containing “one package of actual
cocaine weighing approximately one kilogram and nine packages of cocaine
stimulant [sic] that also weighed approximately one kilogram
each.”(Emphasis added.)Read the whole thing Here
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