Witness: Shawna Forde asked his help before anti-immigrant murders
The state expects to rest its case Wednesday or Thursday.
When Shawna Forde called Colorado resident Ron Wedow in the spring of 2009 and told him she knew how they could get some rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons, Wedow said he was immediately suspicious.
Wedow told a Pima County jury Tuesday that Forde had taken a picture of his face during a border operation in October 2007 and now, months later, she wanted to discuss weapons.
“I thought I was being set up,” Wedow said.
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On June 2, 2009, and June 9, 2009, Wedow called Forde for the FBI, which taped the conversations.
Deputy Pima County Attorney Kellie Johnson played those conversations for the jury.
In the first, Wedow tells Forde he can now participate in the operation they had discussed at the truck stop. She tells him things are “too hot” in Arivaca right now because of some shootings and the authorities are “shaking down” people asking them what they know. She tells Wedow that if the police want to talk to her they are going to have to call her, but home invasions are not up “her alley” and she doesn’t know anything about what happened.
She also talks about her “gunny” being shot in a nearby wash and her having to hide from drug smugglers in a wash for two hours.
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And now some coverage from the East Coast:
Why isn’t the murder of 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father, allegedly at the hands of anti-immigration vigilantes in Arizona, a national news story, we wondered on Friday afternoon. The trial of Shawna Forde, who prosecutors say led the raid of the Flores home to steal drug money, began last week and outlets like the Arizona Daily Star and The Daily Beast had reporters on the ground. But much of the mainstream media ignored it altogether, including both CNN and the New York Times. Eventually, the Beast and local paper were joined the ABC News, the Los Angeles Times, Britain’s Daily Mail and a host of bloggers, acknowledging the newsworthiness of the trial. Now, CNN is finally getting into the action.
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