Watch: CBS Skips Own Reporter’s Scoop: McAllen Robbery Suspects Are Illegals

McAllen, Texas public officials appeared to be caught lying by omission on Monday after CBS correspondent David Begnaud reported via Twitter that they were failing to disclose the legal status of seven suspects involved in a jewelry store robbery. It was a scoop backed-up by two federal law enforcement sources familiar with the case but during that night’s CBS Evening News, the network completely ignored it. Following a jewelry store robbery at La Plaza Mall on Saturday, local officials told the press they had arrested seven male suspects believed to be involved in the incident, which was originally thought to be an active shooter situation. The two law enforcement officials familiar with the case were disturbed by that explanation because it omitted the fact that all the men arrested were illegal immigrants. -- More....

What was thought to be an active shooter situation at a McAllen, TX, mall, over the weekend, was a robbery allegedly committed by 7 Mexican nationals, according to 2 sources, who tell me the men entered the U.S., illegally, 2wks ago, in Reynosa, having paid a smuggler 4,500 each pic.twitter.com/cXwlyeuoCU

— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) July 30, 2018