During the late hours of December 14, 2010, U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was tragically killed in the line of duty.

Agent Terry and his team encountered a group of armed robbers known as a rip crew just north of Nogales, Arizona.

Gunfire broke out as the agents attempted to make an arrest,

and Agent Terry was shot in the back, killing him.

The ensuing investigation led to a shocking discovery

that exposed the dangerous decisions and the acts of the federal government

and that it wasn't just the cartels that had blood on their hands.

I'm Emily Campano, and this is the Fox True Crime podcast.

I'm Emily Campano. The The In 2009, agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, or ATF, began noticing a rise of suspicious gun purchases in shops across the area.

The transactions were being made by criminals and armed members of dangerous Mexican

cartels. But rather than intervening, ATF agents were ordered to let the guns move across

the border so that they could be tracked.

But the operation backfired,

and the ATF ultimately lost track of over 1,400 of the 2,000 guns

that were in the hands of smugglers.

Two of these rifles were found at the scene of Agent Terry's murder,

uncovering the many, and fatal,

mistakes made by the federal government in the name of their operation Fast and Furious.

Although the Department of Justice claimed that no gun walking occurred,

Special Agent John Dodson blew the whistle on these

injustices. But as prosecutors discussed the possibility of indicting Dodson, another brave man stepped

forward. Peter Ferselli is a retired ATF deputy assistant director and former NYPD homicide detective.

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