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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1087005" data-attributes="member: 12952">[h=1]ATF&#039;s Milwaukee sting operation marred by mistakes, failures[/h]A store calling itself Fearless Distributing opened early last year&nbsp; on an out-of-the-way street in Milwaukee&#039;s Riverwest neighborhood,&nbsp; offering designer clothes, athletic shoes, jewelry and drug&nbsp; paraphernalia.&nbsp; Those working behind the counter, however, weren&#039;t interested in selling anything.&nbsp; They were undercover agents from the <a href="http://www.atf.gov/" target="_blank">U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives</a> running a storefront sting aimed at busting criminal operations in the city by purchasing drugs and guns from felons.&nbsp; But the effort to date has not snared any major dealers or taken down&nbsp; a gang. Instead, it resulted in a string of mistakes and failures,&nbsp; including an ATF military-style machine gun landing on the streets of&nbsp; Milwaukee and the agency having $35,000 in merchandise stolen from its&nbsp; store, a Journal Sentinel investigation has found.Mike Zielinski, a UPS driver in the area, said he asked the people&nbsp; running the operation if they needed to get an account for deliveries.&nbsp; What they said puzzled him.&nbsp; &quot;They said they wouldn&#039;t be sending or getting anything. I thought&nbsp; that was odd because &#039;distributing&#039; is in their name. Fearless&nbsp; Distributing,&quot; he said. &quot;I was wondering, what kind of business is&nbsp; that.&quot;&nbsp; They never sent or received anything via UPS in 10 months, Zielinski said.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1087005, member: 12952"] [h=1]ATF's Milwaukee sting operation marred by mistakes, failures[/h] A store calling itself Fearless Distributing opened early last year on an out-of-the-way street in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood, offering designer clothes, athletic shoes, jewelry and drug paraphernalia. Those working behind the counter, however, weren't interested in selling anything. They were undercover agents from the [URL="http://www.atf.gov/"]U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives[/URL] running a storefront sting aimed at busting criminal operations in the city by purchasing drugs and guns from felons. But the effort to date has not snared any major dealers or taken down a gang. Instead, it resulted in a string of mistakes and failures, including an ATF military-style machine gun landing on the streets of Milwaukee and the agency having $35,000 in merchandise stolen from its store, a Journal Sentinel investigation has found. Mike Zielinski, a UPS driver in the area, said he asked the people running the operation if they needed to get an account for deliveries. What they said puzzled him. "They said they wouldn't be sending or getting anything. I thought that was odd because 'distributing' is in their name. Fearless Distributing," he said. "I was wondering, what kind of business is that." They never sent or received anything via UPS in 10 months, Zielinski said. [/QUOTE]

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