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Barr Lied - said today there have been 200 arrests in past 2 wks, actually there has been ONE.
Wow. Barr says today there have been 200 arrests in the past two weeks. KC says the real number is more like one. Then DOJ backtracks and says 200 is since December and includes local arrests. What the hell is going on at DOJ?
Link to tweet
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Barr says feds arrested 200 people in Operation Legend. KC officials can’t confirm it
But the announcement came just two days after the first charge was announced in connection with Operation Legend, billed as a federal law enforcement effort against violent crime. And officials in Kansas City said they had no knowledge of any number arrests close to Barr’s figure.
The only charges announced in the operation so far were against Monty W. Ray, 20, of Kansas City, who was arrested Friday by an Independence officer and an agent with the U.S. Marshals Service. Ray was charged Monday in federal court with being an unlawful drug user in possession of firearms, according to a criminal complaint.
When asked just before 11 a.m. Tuesday if there had been any additional arrests since Monty Ray, Don Ledford, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Kansas City, said “No, not that I’m aware of.”
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article244417362.html
But the announcement came just two days after the first charge was announced in connection with Operation Legend, billed as a federal law enforcement effort against violent crime. And officials in Kansas City said they had no knowledge of any number arrests close to Barr’s figure.
The only charges announced in the operation so far were against Monty W. Ray, 20, of Kansas City, who was arrested Friday by an Independence officer and an agent with the U.S. Marshals Service. Ray was charged Monday in federal court with being an unlawful drug user in possession of firearms, according to a criminal complaint.
When asked just before 11 a.m. Tuesday if there had been any additional arrests since Monty Ray, Don Ledford, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Kansas City, said “No, not that I’m aware of.”
https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article244417362.html