The Mounties appear to have been caught red-handed in the US surveilling Americans at a Montana gun show..Cascade County Sheriff Jesse Slaughter said at a gun show last month, local county employees and others noticed someone with Canadian plates watching people at the gun show..This raised the eyebrows of local law enforcement who then went to the parking lot to investigate who that person was..When sheriff's deputies arrived, they realized the person was an RCMP officer who was assigned to a gun smuggling task force, and he was undercover watching Americans in America.."It's very dangerous to have an operation like that, and we should have been notified. So we told them the operation was over and to their credit, they agreed and they left that,’ Slaughter told media in Great Falls, Montana.."The police officer was assigned to a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Task Force for gun smuggling and was working with ATF.”.KTXL 1370 AM Radio spoke with Slaughter about the matter and he noted "the ATF didn’t inform him of any of these plans prior to the gun show.".Apparently, Canada and the ATF wanted to spy on Americans at a gun show in Montana, and they didn't even notify the sheriff in advance. .ATF's public information officer Crystal K. McCoy told Montana Right Now, "they are not going to comment on the issue with the news source and they will not have a conversation about it.".Slaughter told Montana Right Now not much information is known about the investigation as he wasn't informed about the undercover operation.."That could have been extremely, extremely dangerous. And then you had the variable that there was a Canadian law enforcement officer in there, and that would have been an international incident," said Slaughter..The Western Standard has reached out to the RCMP for comment.
The Mounties appear to have been caught red-handed in the US surveilling Americans at a Montana gun show..Cascade County Sheriff Jesse Slaughter said at a gun show last month, local county employees and others noticed someone with Canadian plates watching people at the gun show..This raised the eyebrows of local law enforcement who then went to the parking lot to investigate who that person was..When sheriff's deputies arrived, they realized the person was an RCMP officer who was assigned to a gun smuggling task force, and he was undercover watching Americans in America.."It's very dangerous to have an operation like that, and we should have been notified. So we told them the operation was over and to their credit, they agreed and they left that,’ Slaughter told media in Great Falls, Montana.."The police officer was assigned to a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Task Force for gun smuggling and was working with ATF.”.KTXL 1370 AM Radio spoke with Slaughter about the matter and he noted "the ATF didn’t inform him of any of these plans prior to the gun show.".Apparently, Canada and the ATF wanted to spy on Americans at a gun show in Montana, and they didn't even notify the sheriff in advance. .ATF's public information officer Crystal K. McCoy told Montana Right Now, "they are not going to comment on the issue with the news source and they will not have a conversation about it.".Slaughter told Montana Right Now not much information is known about the investigation as he wasn't informed about the undercover operation.."That could have been extremely, extremely dangerous. And then you had the variable that there was a Canadian law enforcement officer in there, and that would have been an international incident," said Slaughter..The Western Standard has reached out to the RCMP for comment.
