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