4 US suspects arrested in smuggling scheme to export machine guns, assault rifles and hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition to a Mexican drug cartel, officials say.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in California’s Central District named two more suspects in the alleged scheme to move “military-grade firepower” to the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación, a group that law enforcement officials in the U.S. and Mexico have said is filling a vacuum left by theOne of the suspects is believed to be at large in Mexico. Another is in state custody in North Carolina on unrelated charges, the prosecutor’s office said in a news release.
“The defendants in this case smuggled sophisticated weaponry out of the United States to one of the most violent cartels in Mexico whose members target not only rival gangs, but innocent Mexican citizens and Mexican law enforcement,” Kristi Johnson, an FBI official in Los Angeles, said in a statement.
Authorities seized an additional 250,000 rounds of assault rifle ammunition and 100,000 rounds of .223-caliber bullets. Prosecutors said Santillan's son, Marco Santillan Jr., 29, was allegedly seen in a Facebook video holding a stack of $100 bills and bragging about selling guns to the cartel.
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