Gun Shop Owners Arrested for Alleged Firearms Exports to Mexico
on August 30, 2011, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that the owner of a New Mexico gun shop, his wife, and their two sons were arrested on firearms smuggling and money laundering charges. Between April 2010 and July 2011,…
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the defendants allegedly conspired to make false statements in connection with acquiring firearms and illegally exporting them to Mexico. The defendants sold an aggregate of 16 firearms and more than 7,000 rounds of ammunition with the understanding that they were intended to be illegally smuggled into Mexico. The defendants allegedly removed the ammunition from its original packaging and repackaged the ammunition in black canvas bags to conceal it from law enforcement.