AZMEX EXTRA 26 MAY 2018
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Man gets 4 years in prison for ammo smuggling into Mexico
Associated Press
9:15 AM, May 26, 2018
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/man-gets-4-years-in-prison-for-ammo-smuggling-into-mexico
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A California man was sentenced to four years in prison for his convictions in a scheme nearly two years ago to smuggle ammunition and rifle magazines from Arizona into Mexico.
Miguel Ochoa-Ruiz of Concord was sentenced Friday in Tucson for his smuggling and conspiracy convictions.
Authorities say Ochoa-Ruiz bought 2,000 rounds of ammunition and 248 high-capacity rifle magazines that were then given to 23-year-old Guadalupe Carillo-Villa of Tucson to smuggle into Mexico.
Carillo-Villa was arrested during the smuggling attempt.
The next day, authorities who regarded Ochoa-Ruiz as a person of interest from the earlier smuggling attempt encountered him at a fast-food restaurant in Nogales, Arizona.
Authorities found another 11,000 rounds of ammunition in Ochoa-Ruiz's possession.
Carillo-Villa has pleaded guilty to charges and was sentenced to four years in prison.
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Updated:
Tucson woman sentenced 4 years for smuggling ammunition into Mexico
BY KTAR.COM
MAY 28, 2018 AT 4:20 AM
http://ktar.com/story/2084219/tucson-woman-california-man-sentenced-4-years-smuggling-ammo-mexico/
PHOENIX — A Tucson woman and a California man were sentenced to four years in prison for smuggling ammunition into Mexico, the Department of Justice said.
Ana Guadalupe Carillo-Villa, 23, and Miguel Ochoa-Ruiz, 39, were found guilty on charges including smuggling goods from the United States and conspiracy.
On July 7, 2016, Ochoa-Ruiz bought 2,000 rounds of rifle ammunition and 248 high-capacity rifle magazines in Phoenix.
He and Carillo-Villa took them to Nogales, Ariz. before Carillo-Villa attempted to smuggle them over the border.
She was stopped at the port of entry.
The next day, Ochoa-Ruiz purchased 11,000 more rounds of ammunition in Phoenix and attempted to smuggle it into Mexico.
He was stopped before he left the United States.
There's evidence the two of them conspired to smuggle ammunition into Meixco on at least four other occasions, the DOJ said.
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Note: Some hope for the people of Mexico ? Fear? Si. The politicians and other criminals. From the good guys at Borderland Beat
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Thursday, May 24, 2018
Tamaulipas Congress discusses approving citizens to carry firearms, in the face of rampant insecurity
Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel for Borderland Beat from a Milenio article
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2018/05/tamaulipas-congress-discusses-approving.html#more
Subject Matter: Concealed and non concealed carrying of arms by civilians in Tamaulipas
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
Otis: This could be a momentous decision for the people of Tamaulipas in cities such as Reynosa and Rio Bravo, who live in fear of constant running gun battles between antagonistic narcos, extortion and kidnapping. The current laws allow Mexican citizens under the constitution to keep firearms up to .38 calibre in their homes. This temporary amendment, if made, will allow them to carry arms in the street to defend their business from extortion, themselves from being kidnapped, and to assist the Police engaged in confrontations with criminals, will certainly be received with fear, but from the criminals not the ordinary citizens
Reporter: Antonio Hernandez
In the face of insecurity, opinion is divided in the Tamaulipas congress to arm men and women in the style of the old west to defend themselves from aggression, robbery or kidnapping in Tamaulipas.
The Deputy Nohemi Estrella Leal, president of the Commission for Transparency and Access to Public information, said she will insist on discussing an initiative so that civilians can repel attacks or act in defense of victims of crime, until the Police can arrive.
What is involved is that people will be able to carry weapons with permission, can only intervene when they see a crime in progress or when they are prey to a crime and only until the Police arrive.
In addition, it is also a question of having your handgun loaded, "cocked and locked", because all those carrying will help to maintain security as auxiliary police officers.
For his part, Alejandro Etienne, president of the Instructor Commission of the Congress of Tamaulipas, said that in Mexico we have had the problem of yesteryear, because people were armed, and a disarmament program was made.
"Today conditions make this issue come back, precisely because of the inability we have had as governments of one or the other party to solve the problem of insecurity," he explained. To arm people seems to me that it is not the answer, the answer should come from the authority, from people having no need to go armed or seek to walk armed, but to solve thoroughly the problem of security.
So that is not even an option that people are looking for the use of weapons, so we have to be more effective in combating insecurity. And he concluded, there is the possibility of going armed, but it should be seen within the normative framework.
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Man to remain in custody in weapons case
Second person implicated in smuggling of grenade launcher
LORENZO ZAZUETA-CASTRO | STAFF WRITER 3 hrs ago (0)
http://www.themonitor.com/news/local/article_39730a2a-6098-11e8-b846-b3c1d4df2b07.html
McALLEN — A Brownsville man will continue to be held in federal custody in connection with an attempt to smuggle a grenade launcher barrel into Mexico.
Miguel Angel Gutierrez, 26, was scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter E. Ormsby on Friday afternoon for a detention hearing but waived his appearance beforehand, leaving him in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service, according to court records.
Gutierrez is one of at least two people alleged to have played a role in an attempt to take the barrel of a grenade launcher and smuggle it into Mexico.
The second defendant, Jose Martin Carmona-Gonzalez, 45, also of Brownsville, made his initial appearance in federal court Thursday, a day after court records show he was arrested. He is expected back before a magistrate judge Wednesday where he could possibly be granted a bond, court records show.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers arrested Gutierrez Monday in connection with a firearms trafficking investigation conducted by agents with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations.
Earlier this month HSI agents, as part of ongoing investigation, seized a M203 launcher barrel from an unnamed individual, later identified as Carmona, in Brownsville who told agents that the barrel was supposed to be smuggled into Mexico.
According to the complaint, Carmona told agents that the barrel was supposed to be smuggled into Mexico.
A meeting was scheduled with the understanding that an unnamed person in Mexico was going to send someone, later identified as Gutierrez, to pick up the launcher. The launcher was repackaged, and handed to Gutierrez in Brownsville.
CBP officers working the port of entry in Brownsville approached Gutierrez and detained him.
During his interview with authorities, Gutierrez told them that he had been recruited by an unnamed co-conspirator in Mexico to smuggle a tube used for launching grenades.
"According to the Department of State, Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (DTCC), M203 launcher tubes are determined to be a defense article described on the United States Munitions List (USML) and regulated for export pursuant to the Arms Export Control Act," the complaint states.
Gutierrez told officers he knew it was illegal to smuggle the grenade launcher tube into Mexico, the complaint states.
Gutierrez will remain in custody pending his trial proceedings.
lzazueta@themonitor.com
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