Here’s one you don’t see every day: Even a member of Congress can’t get answers from a law enforcement agency! For more than a year, New Mexico In Depth has been trying to figure out why agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives did not arrested Davon Lymon, who had previously served 10 years in prison for manslaughter, after he sold them thousands of dollars worth of heroin and a pistol in the fall of 2015. Weeks after the undercover buys, Lymon allegedly shot an Albuquerque police officer. After NMID’s stories about the buys, U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-Albuquerque, started pressing ATF for answers, too. More than a year later, crickets. Now, Lujan Grisham is calling for congressional hearings to get to the bottom of it.
It’s Sunshine Week, which is all about your right to know. We’ll be rolling out all kinds of content on this site and on social media. This “Gray Skies” series will look at instances when officials, agencies and public institutions not transparent and evaded the disinfecting power of sunlight.
