Two charged with smuggling nearly 3,000 bullets to Mexico
by: Julian Resendiz
Posted: Jul 15, 2024 / 03:02 PM CDT
Updated: Jul 15, 2024 / 03:50 PM CDT
Trip to ‘sell goats, buy clothes’ in Texas was cover for straw purchase of ammo for illegal export, feds say
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Two men who initially told investigators they visited El Paso to sell goats and purchase clothing are being held in connection with a failed attempt to smuggle 2,820 bullets into Mexico, federal court documents allege.
A federal grand jury in the Western District of Texas on Wednesday charged Jaime Noe Ceballos Maturin and Daniel Soberanes Nunez with two counts of conspiracy and smuggling goods from the United States. The charges stem from the June 11 seizure of the ammo on the southbound lanes of the Bridge of the Americas in El Paso.
Members of the U.S. Border Patrol Anti-Smuggling Unit received intelligence that Ceballos and Soberanes were purchasing dozens of boxes of various caliber ammunition in El Paso they placed in a Dodge Journey with Durango, Mexico, license plates.
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