Posted on 08/05/2020 1:29:26 PM PDT by ransomnote
LAREDO, Texas – A federal grand jury has returned an indictment against a 68-year-old Mexican man for smuggling goods from the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
Juan Jose Jimenez-Guerra is charged with attempting to smuggle a total of 92 firearm magazines into Mexico, 48 of which were 7.62 caliber designed for an AK-47 type rifle. The remaining magazines were 5.56 caliber for an AR-15 rifle.
He was originally charged by criminal complaint and has remained in custody pending further proceedings. He is expected to appear for his arraignment before a U.S. magistrate judge in the near future.
On July 3, Jimenez-Guerra was attempting to leave the United States at the Lincoln Juarez Port of Entry Bridge in Laredo, according to the allegations. There, authorities allegedly observed two firearm magazines fall from his pickup truck. They conducted a more thorough inspection of his vehicle and discovered the nearly 100 magazines located in the bed of the truck, according to the charges.
If convicted, Jimenez-Guerra face up to 10 years in federal prison and a possible $250,000 maximum fine.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations conducted the investigation with the assistance of Customs and Border Protection. Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon Scott Bowling is prosecuting the case.
An indictment is a formal accusation of criminal conduct, not evidence.
A defendant is presumed innocent unless convicted through due process of law.
Idiot forgot to pay his vig to US Customs.
I’ve read some gun magazines they were pretty good.
I’m here all week although most wish I wasn’t :-)
China buying US ammo
I was gonna ask - was he part of Eric Holder’s “Fast and Furious”?
They’re CLIPS, not magazines!
Heh, heh, to make money for college one of my uncles used to smuggle guns into Mexico from California back in the 1930s.
Guns and Ammo? American Rifleman?
Admit it...you’re just looking at the pictures.
Kind of retarded. Did these mags have ammo in them?
I see those Mexicans trailering/towing cars 3 or 4 at a time southbound on 35.
Cars are deadly too.
You think cartels need people to smuggle mags?
I would imagine that Cheaper than Dirt and Brownells ships to Mehico. Shit.
What was his federal offence? In Texas, those mags were likely legal. They aren’t firearms. Maybe he needed an export license. His problem, it seems to me would have been the Mexicans.
lol
And I touch them!!
American Rifleman, Shooting Monthly, Guns & Ammo, Pistoleer monthly, and 68 other titles of magazines, but if he was trying to export 72 clips, that would be illegal.
Well then, what's the part that goes up?
That’s the follower. Magazines have followers, clips don’t.
Clips are used to load ammo into magazines.
Anyway, what’s the big deal with smuggling magazines?
As if Mexico doesn’t have nearly enough automatic weapons right now...
I've talked to a couple of those guys and they were from Panama. Their problem was running the gauntlet in Mexico without getting robbed.
Yeah, I know. It was something DiFi said a couple of years ago when describing assault weapons.
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