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Two Americans were arrested and charged with attempting to smuggle over 90 firearms, including Assault rifles and grenade launchers AR-15, AK-47members of a drug cartel in Mexico, Florida’s
Two Americans were arrested and charged with attempting to smuggle over 90 firearms, including Assault rifles and grenade launchers AR-15, AK-47members of a drug cartel in Mexico, Florida’s Middle District Attorney’s office said Tuesday.
Juendry Rodriguez Hilario, 28, a Cleveland resident, and Saleh Yusuf Saleh, 24, a resident of the same city in Ohio, were charged with “conspiracy to transfer a firearm to commit a felony and drug trafficking.” crimes.
As of 2021, undercover agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) “posing as members of the Mexican cartel” were introduced to Rodriguez Hilario as firearms dealers to smuggle them into Mexico, according to the indictment.
“Undercover connection” with Rodriguez Hilario and others involved a purchase AR-15 and rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
Beginning in late 2021, the conspirators “sold or arranged for the sale of at least 90 rifles and one silenced Mac-10 machine gun to undercover officers” in the Middle District of Florida and Cleveland.
In November 2022, an undercover agent told Rodriguez Hilario that his associates in Mexico were “fighting and losing” and needed to buy more firearms.
And in March 2023, Rodriguez Hilario ordered agents to supply 40 AM-15 multi-caliber assault rifles.
Saleh, who had bought and assembled parts to make firearms, arrived for a meeting with Rodriguez Hilario and agents.
After an undercover agent inspected one of the crates of firearms, the statement said, both Rodriguez Hilario and Saleh were arrested.
Interrogations after arrest both confessed to dealing in firearms.
The accused were arrested in Cleveland on March 2, 2023 and were recently ordered to detain them. EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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