Texas woman allegedly busted at US-Mexico border with 44 rifles, disassembled machine gun in trampol

[rangerrebew]

Texas woman allegedly busted at US-Mexico border with 44 rifles, disassembled machine gun in trampoline box
CBP stopped Padron on the way into Mexico Monday
By Michael Ruiz , Bill Melugin | Fox News
 

Federal authorities have arrested an American woman accused of trying to smuggle a shipment of dozens of rifles in trampoline packaging across the border into Mexico earlier this week.

Mayra Alejandra Padron, a 31-year-old from Houston, was arrested Monday at the Hidalgo port of entry – allegedly carrying 44 rifles, a single handgun, a dissembled M249 machine gun and almost 3,000 rounds of ammunition in the back of a gray Chevy pickup truck.

Padron allegedly told Homeland Security Investigations agents that someone paid her $200 to drive the Silverado from Houston to Mexico, that she’d made similar runs in the past and that she intended to open a cross-border shipping business.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/mayra-padron-rifles-machine-gun-mexico-border-trampolines

[rangerrebew]

$200 for gun running across the US border?  She's a terrible liar or terribly stupid.

[mountaineer]

I wonder if this bust will show up on that TV show, "To Catch a Smuggler."

[Smokin Joe]

Who is she working for, and who paid them and who tipped off the cops?


This plays back into the whole "cartel guns came from US dealers" thing the Obama administration was pushing.

Fast and Furious is a franchise, now, not just an operation.

[sneakypete]

Did she explain that she is from Texas?