Superfluous Hotdogging Screw-ups - Watchdog Update - Botched ATF sting in Milwaukee ensnares brain-damaged man

Here is another prime example of this worthless agency that spends its time grandstanding for phony publicity. It appears to do little more than harass people and set up entrapment. m/r

Backfire | Watchdog Update - Botched ATF sting in Milwaukee ensnares brain-damaged man

Man was used in sting, later charged

By John Diedrich and Raquel Rutledge 4-6-13

ATF agents running an undercover storefront in Milwaukee used a brain-damaged man with a low IQ to set up gun and drug deals, paying him in cigarettes, merchandise and money, according to federal documents obtained by the Journal Sentinel.

For more than six months, federal agents relied on Chauncey Wright to promote "Fearless Distributing" by handing out fliers as he rode his bike around town recommending the store to friends, family and strangers, according to federal prosecutors and family members.

Wright, unaware that the store was an undercover operation being run by agents with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, also stocked shelves with shoes, clothing, drug paraphernalia and auto parts, according to his family.

Once authorities shut down the operation, they charged the 28-year-old man with federal gun and drug counts.

"I have never heard of anything so ludicrous in my life," said Greg Thiele, who spent 30 years working for the Milwaukee Police Department including on undercover stings with federal agents, including those with the ATF. "Something is very wrong here."

Wright's IQ measures in the 50s ...

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