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ATF official's gun ends up at Mexican crime scene

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    Concerns about possible 'Fast and Furious' link

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Republican senator Chuck Grassley now says the ATF wasn't just letting guns walk is part of operation fast and furious.

But also possibly buying guns the proof he says turned up at a high profile murder in Mexico.

Correspondent -- martian maps has the latest from Walsh -- way.

Well a question that is how did a gun belonging to a high ranking ATF official end up -- a crime scene.

In Mexico now and November the day after Thanksgiving Mexican police gotten a shoot out with a single cartel.

Afterwards police recovered several weapons including a powerful Belgian made semi automatic pistol.

It was traced back to Jorge to let the assistant special agent in charge of ATF in Phoenix during the fast and furious investigation.

-- it now works at the ATF headquarters in Washington.

Police -- a second weapon to burial pitino.

The key suspect in the case not congressional investigators want to know how long gun belonging to the number two -- ATF showed up.

At the same place on the same day a thousand miles away three years later next to the gun of the Fallon that he was chasing.

Why would the assistant.

In charge of that office be buying guns in the first place and that would raise a question the extent to which.

That person might be involved in the gun trafficking that was going on in profiting from it.

Among those killed in Mexico was beauty queen Maria -- police found -- -- -- and sixty shell -- Next to her body records -- Gillette purchased his weapon at legendary arms the peace gun stores.

And on the federal form used to buy four guns Gillette used the ATF office address twice missile labeling it as an apartment.

And on another occasion he used a strip mall now accorded the law but Gillette and forced buyers are required to use their residential address.

About we did attempt to reach Gillette through the ATF and his attorney but he didn't return calls he did tell another outlet however that he sold that -- on the Internet.

Right fairway we'll follow it thank you.