ATF director: Undercover agents targeted mentally disabled people by accident

Published April 2, 2014 4:00am ET



Federal agents who convinced mentally disabled people to commit crimes and then arrested them may have done so because they didn’t realize the people they were targeting had special needs, according to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director Todd Jones.

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