Ex-Army sniper arrested, charged with doing security for drug cartel

[Judi Lynn]

Source: UPI

Ex-Army sniper arrested, charged with doing security for drug cartel
Published: Sept. 28, 2013 at 3:50 PM

NEW YORK, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- A former U.S. Army sniper has been charged with attempting to run what he thought was a security outfit for a Colombian drug cartel.

Joseph Hunter, 48, a former Army sergeant, had been in contact with what he thought was a Colombian drug dealer but who turned out to be an undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement Agency, CNN said.

Hunter, aka "Rambo," and a team of three others had traveled to various countries conducting security for what Hunter thought was a cocaine operation. He had agreed and planned to carry out the assassination of a DEA agent and a "snitch," CNN said.

Prosecutors said Hunter's actions were like that of a character in a spy novel.

"The bone-chilling allegations in today's Indictment read like they were ripped from the pages of a Tom Clancy novel," Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Friday. "The charges tell a tale of an international band of mercenary marksmen who enlisted their elite military training to serve as hired guns for evil ends."

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[jakeXT]

1. One of many

The DEA sent in confidential sources who hired the team — comprised of former U.S. military sniper and drill sergeant Joseph Manuel Hunter, former U.S. sergeant Timothy Vamvakias, former German snipers Dennis Gogel and Michael Filter, and and Polish former sniper Slawomir Soborski — to provide services for purported Columbian drug traffickers.

http://gawker.com/former-u-s-soldiers-formed-a-highly-skilled-team-of-ki-1416966880

[Ash_F]

2. This is how the Zetas started in Mexico.

Not a good sign when your countrymen start doing it.

[Katashi_itto]

3. A body's got to make a living.