Man Who Helped Kill BP Agent Brian Terry Finally Gets Justice...Years After Obama Admin Forgot Terry Family
President Barack Obama may have forgotten, but the Terry family didn’t, America didn’t and apparently, President Donald Trump didn’t either. Now, after more than eight years, at least some justice has been served in the case of the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
On December 14, 2010, Terry was killed while on duty just north of Nogales, Texas. Two of the guns found at the scene of Terry’s murder were later publicly identified as part of Obama’s “Fast and Furious operation,” The Associated Press reported.
The operation involved allowing criminals to purchase weapons so they could then be tracked to the cartels and any other criminal organizations involved. But the plan failed as “the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives lost track of most of the guns.”
During Obama’s tenure, border patrol agents had been made impotent in matters of both border and personal security while on the job. Terry and the three other members of his team had reportedly been under standing orders to use bean bag rounds first when confrontations occurred.
So while the team used those non-lethal rounds after coming upon the suspects, who entered the county illegally, the suspects fired live ammunition, killing Terry.
In 2015, two members of the criminal crew had been captured and convicted, although neither was believed to have been the one who killed Terry.
Now Terry’s killer has not only been captured but was convicted for murdering Agent Terry, the AP reported.
38-year-old Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes had been captured in April 2017 in Mexico, while authorities there were working in cooperation with “Customs and Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the DEA and US Marshals,” according to a DHS news release, CNN reported.
Osorio-Arellanes was convicted of first-degree murder and “second-degree murder, conspiracy to affect interstate commerce by robbery, attempted robbery, assault on four Border Patrol agents and carrying a firearm during a crime of violence,” the AP reported. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 29.
For six years under Obama, the Terry family waited for this man to be captured and brought to justice. It was under Trump’s administration that their painful wait was finally put to an end.
The sentencing will not bring their beloved Terry back. But it will help them have some of the closure they needed all these years.
But the story does not stop there. There is still the matter of the Fast and Furious operation, which Terry’s brother, Kent, wants Trump to re-investigate.
@realDonaldTrump @VP MY BROTHER #AGENTBRIANTERRY TRIAL .@ATFHQ @EricHolder THE PICTURE OF MY BROTHER LAYING ON THE MORGUE TABLE WITH A GUNSHOT WOUND BY YOUR #FASTANDFURIOUS SCANDAL .POTUS REINVESTIGATE THIS RECKLESS SCANDAL https://t.co/6O5c89LzNP
— Kent terry (@terry_superman) February 8, 2019
Approximately a year after Osorio-Arellanes was captured, Kent made clear during an interview on NRATV’s “Cam & Company” that it goes far beyond the murder of his brother. He said that a number of issues with the Fast and Furious operation are worthy of further review.
Kent also stated that some of those missing weapons “are still out there.” That, too, is something to be concerned about.
If Trump does open a re-investigation into the matter, it could not only result in criminal prosecutions, but answers and closure for the many families negatively impacted by the operation.
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