Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Two former U.S. Army snipers and a retired sharpshooter planned to assassinate a DEA agent and an informant in Africa, the Justice Department announced, reports the USA Today.
The murders-for-hire were part of a bold plan to fly hundreds of kilograms of cocaine from Colombia to the U.S., the federal government alleges.
The snipers were charged Friday.
The Colombian “drug traffickers” were acting as confidential sources for the DEA, the USA Today reported.
Two other experienced snipers, one from Poland and the other from Germany, were arrested for allegedly being involved in the original plot, the USA Today wrote.
The “bone-chilling allegations read like they were ripped from the pages of a Tom Clancy novel,” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement announcing the indictment.
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