Authorities say Mexican cartel bought, stored guns in Texas

Sun-Sentinel ^ | 10-27-2009

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FORT WORTH, Texas Smugglers with a Mexican drug cartel targeted last week by federal authorities used homes and business parking lots in Fort Worth and Cleburne, Texas, to stash and trade weapons bound for the border, according to federal court documents.

Five acres surrounded by barbed wire in Cleburne and a south Fort Worth restaurant parking lot were among the locations where guns were exchanged, investigators said.

Smugglers transporting weapons on Interstate 35W used two-way radios to watch for law enforcement tails.

Those are among the details included in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The weapons investigation was part of a nationwide crackdown on the violent cartel La Familia, which resulted in the arrest of 300 people last week.

Federal agents also arrested people transporting weapons toward the border, court documents state. Drivers traveled in groups and communicated on two-way radios. Authorities stopped one caravan that started in Fort Worth near the border and recovered 33 weapons and 11,000 rounds of ammunition hidden in the vehicles' wall and ceiling linings.

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"Federal agents also arrested people transporting weapons toward the border, court documents state."

Guns and ammo moving north now. Great.

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my bad. not moving north. all is well.

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I still can't fathom why a criminal would buy a gun at retail price in the US when they could get AK’s from Chavez @ ~$100. There are terrorists all over the globe that will sell guns and ammo for a tenth of what you would pay here at a retail shop. If I needed 100 guns, I would get them from Russia, Czech, China, Africa, almost anywhere but here. One or two guns, maybe, because it would be too much work to get elsewhere. For an army, ...the price difference would be substantial. No paperwork or photo's from the store.

I guess there is so much money in dope, they don't care.

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it’s probably eaiser/cheaper to move them across the US border to their waiting soldiers in the north as opposed to crossing Mexico’s southern border and then moving north. It’s all good to me so long a they’re only killing each other. I’m nervous about those guns coming back north at some point to bite us in the ass though.

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