AZMEX F&F EXTRA 22 OCT 2012
Woman to be sentenced in Fast and Furious case
By Associated Press
Originally published: Oct 22, 2012 - 7:41 am
http://www.ktar.com/22/1583545/Woman-to-be-sentenced-in-Fast-and-
Furious-case
PHOENIX -- A federal judge is scheduled to sentence a woman Monday
who admitted to aiding at a gun smuggling ring that was monitored in
the government's botched investigation known as Operation Fast and
Furious.
Kristi Gail Ireland faces up to five years in prison after she
pleaded guilty in June to aiding and abetting the crime of making
false statements in a gun purchase.
Ireland admitted that she accompanied an alleged ring member in 2010
to a gun shop for a buy, carried $18,000 in her purse for the
purchase and knew that the alleged ring member lied when making the
purchase.
Federal authorities faced criticism for allowing suspected straw gun
buyers to walk away from shops with weapons, rather than arrest the
suspects and seize the guns there.
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