HUGE "anti terror roundup" in huntington WV!!!!!!!!!!! ATF

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Updated: 9:42 AM Mar 3, 2011
BREAKING NEWS: Police, ATF Involved in Major Offender Roundup in Huntington
ATF spokesperson, Earl Woodham tells WSAZ.com that between 40 and 60 people are being targeted in the operation.
Posted: 9:35 AM Mar 3, 2011
Reporter: WSAZ News Staff
Email Address: news@wsaz.com

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HUNTINGTON. W.Va. (WSAZ) -- A major warrant roundup involving both Huntington Police and federal agents is underway in the Huntington area Thursday morning.

ATF spokesperson, Earl Woodham tells WSAZ.com that between 40 and 60 people are being targeted in the operation.
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Woodham says the charges include drug, guns and other violations. He says the main portion of the roundup is focused on Cabell County. By 9:00 a.m. Thursday about half of the people being targeted have been picked up.

Woodham says several hundred law enforcement personnel are involved in the operation.

More details involving the operation will be released during a 2:30 p.m. press conference in Huntington.

Keep clicking on WSAZ.com for updated information.

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With those numbers I thought it must be a mega meth bust, but ATF is involved. wtf?
no update til later?

[John_Back_From_The_Club_O]

The feds are taking out their competition.   With perhaps a little extra on the side.

[Kilika]

Notice the article says "drugs, guns, and other violations". If drugs, then where is the DEA? They got the guns covered with the ATF, and local law enforcement are the local guides to the "offenders" I guess, so is this a gun round up of some sort? Sure doesn't come across as a drug bust. Where's the claims of nabbing tons of pot, or mountains of meth? I'm thinking this was gun-based somehow, but I'm not up on WV gun laws.

[chris jones]

ATF has allways had power, though in the past decade they have imploded.
   Just my take , it seems to me they have seriously expanded their the number of feild agents, their training, and the scope of involvment.
  Sketchy report, as usual, but it may be trafficers, gang related &  outlaw bikers are targeted.

[Baihuigau]

spouse told me yesterday that in seattle, on a certain radio station (FM), has been hearing 3x a day sometimes "CIA recruitment" ads.

what on earth!

Cia lost alot of human intel agents in past years they have been making a big push to catch up now to turn more of a mossad style operation, in the past couple of years they have been pretty much just like the nsa and focused more on communications gathered intel instead of human intel as in using human assets to get intel which is their job.

[westbygoddoug]

Lurked here a long time, registered so I could reply to this...plan on posting plenty though...

This was a legit operation aimed at drug sales and illegal weapons. 

Basically ATF opened up a front, a cig store that sold untaxed cigs and Spice/K2 (which at the time was legal in WV).  ATF has access to untaxed smokes that have been seized so I guess they took the lead.  Local law enforcement was also involved.  ATF posed as bikers, so I heard, to gain intel into drug sales and very unsavory convicted felons running stolen guns, then worked to do deals with the criminals.  Lots of idiots sold them large amounts of pills (mostly OxyContin), smack, coke, and crack cocaine, as well as stolen guns.  They were also able to bust a retailer across the street that ran untaxed smokes, drugs, and hookers out of a gas station, got him for the cigs and OxyContin.  Unfortunately Huntington WV has a huge drug problem, and that particular neighborhood has been hit hard.  As a former 20+ year resident of that area, I am happy to see any crackdown on the drugs and drug violence there, which is often pushed by hard-core criminals from Detroit preying on a poor area with a hopeless economy.   This operation was one of many in the area that has included DEA and other agencies. 

Huntington has been decimated by globalism and the destruction of the American manufacturing base.  It is a damn shame that hopeless people often turn to hard-core drugs, and the scum pushing it needs to be ran out of town.  I am pretty much a social libertarian and believe in personal rights and responsibility, but no one has the right to come into town and push death and violence. 

[IridiumKEPfactor]

Looks like the ATF is trying to fraudulently redeem themselves from the beating they got last week with the Mexican gun running they were operating and their director that is rumored to resign.   

I question the timing.

[tritonman]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/atlantic/20110620/ts_atlantic/atfchiefresignovermexicangunscontroversy39030_1
Elspeth Reeve – Mon Jun 20, 2:21 pm ET


Kenneth Melson is expected to resign as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives in the next day or two with the agency facing scrutiny over the controversial "Fast and Furious" anti-gun trafficking operation that cost the life of a border agent, CNN's Terry Frieden reports. Melson has led the ATF since April 2009, and might be replaced by Andrew Traver, who leads the agency's field office in Chicago. Melson was "closely involved with managing" the operation

For more on the ATF see link
Things and timing that makes one go hmmmmmm/

[DireWolf]

This will likely be found to be another FBI sting totally orchestrated and funded by themselves to justify their having jobs. If there are any genuine threats involved they will be to the power of the Federal government as in demanding they stay within to the limitations placed on them by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

It's no secrete most Feds hate the fact they are our employees and so seek to destroy our rights.

[Kilika]

It's no secrete most Feds hate the fact they are our employees and so seek to destroy our rights.

No, they don't think they work for the public. That's the problem. They think government is above the public, and that the public must answer to government, when the fact is, it's the other way around. And they aren't seeking to destroy rights, they don't think the public has any rights, other than what government says, depending on what illegal bill they got passed of late, in complete disregard for the Constitution.