eesh Wrote:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/ex-military-po
> lice-officer-pleads-guilty-to-robbing-iphone-custo
> mers/2011/11/16/gIQAWBqYSN_story.html
>
>
> Ramsey has been charged in federal court with
> conspiring to commit robbery. He had been
> previously convicted in another scheme involving
> iPhones, federal agents wrote in court papers.
>
> In that case, agents wrote, Ramsey also placed
> online advertisements for iPhones. When he met
> potential buyers, Ramsey either took the
> customer’s money and ran or took the cash and
> gave them a bag that did not contain the promised
> smartphone, according to agents with the Bureau of
> Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
>
>
> Since when does the ATF concern itself with a
> crime as mundane as ripping off people on
> Craigslist?
When it's an armed commission of an aggravated felony perpetrated by military police officers probably using their government issued sidearm that was intended for LEO purposes.
When someone robs a bank with a gun local cops call the FBI, ATF, etc.