The Arizona Daily Star is now reporting that authorities are seeking information on an entirely different person.
The killing of a Southern Arizona rancher that sparked an outcry to secure the border was not random, and investigators are focusing on a suspect in the United States, the Arizona Daily Star has learned.
High-ranking government officials with credible information spoke to the Star, citing a desire to quell the fury over illegal immigration and drug smuggling set off by the shooting death of longtime rancher Robert Krentz on March 27.
They said Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever is investigating a person in the United States, not in Mexico, in connection with the shooting.
It's almost an assurance, should Malkin decided to exercise even a modest amount of journalistic and intellectual integrity to update her smear piece, that she will likely accuse Dever of attempting to politicize this case and the recent Arizona immigration law in order to make some type of statement. This is how conservativism works.
But there's an interesting facet to this story that I had realize until reading this article.
Krentz was found gunned down on his ranch northeast of Douglas a day after his brother reported drug-smuggling activity to the Border Patrol that led to the seizure of 290 pounds of marijuana and the arrest of eight people on the ranch.
Was this killing perpetrated as a form of retribution for Krentz's brother reporting the drug activity or was Krentz providing a corridor for the smugglers to use as safe passage? I don't think the later is outside the realm of possibility and should be investigated.
And while Republican politicians are using this man's death as a talking point to coincide with Arizona's new draconian immigration law, I find it more than a little troubling that people are far too eager to assume that this is simply a case of another illegal immigrant perpetrating a crime. There's likely far more to this story than we are seeing at this point.
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