One in an occasional series on firearms trafficking For years, Mexican authorities implored the U.S. to stop the steady flow of guns from Texas and other...
Mexican cartels wouldn’t be as successful sending loads of drugs like fentanyl into Texas and the rest of the nation without the Texas-bought guns that boost their arsenal, experts and officials say. But U.S. authorities have largely been unable to disrupt major firearms trafficking operations.
McLaughlin said the solution is to enforce the law and punish those who break it, as well as give law enforcement adequate resources to do their job.North Texas to MexicoThe following convictions, found in local federal court records, are just a few of the cases in which guns were bought legally in North Texas for illegal delivery to Mexico in the last five years.
In the first-of-a-kind lawsuit, Mexico says the American gun industry is profiting off the deadly violence and other miseries of the U.S. drug war.that killed 23 people, including Mexican citizens.“We can’t stay silent when we have white supremacists killing Mexicans this side of the border,” de la Torre said, referring to the El Paso shooter, Patrick Crusius.
Celorio said Mexico wants certain American gun manufacturers to be “more careful and responsible in the way they conduct their business.” The 135-page lawsuit references at least five cases in which North Texas guns were sold to Mexican cartels. In three of those cases, cartel members used the guns in violent attacks, the lawsuit states.
In a separate federal lawsuit, the Mexican government, citing that secret trace data, sued five Arizona gun dealers, mostly in Tucson and Phoenix, that it alleges knowingly supply drug cartels.“Defendants are part of the small percentage of dealers that sell virtually all crime guns recovered in Mexico,” the lawsuit states. “Arizona is a hotbed of the unlawful gun trafficking into Mexico; these defendants made it so.
The suit could push U.S. authorities to focus more on gun dealers than on border enforcement, he said. Even if Mexico doesn’t win, the legal discovery process could expose gun companies that know their weapons are flooding into Mexico, Lindsay-Poland said. Drugs aren’t his only specialty, as one DEA agent noted in testimony during a 2020 detention hearing related to the case.
Mummert pleaded guilty to conspiracy to smuggle goods and was sentenced last year in Plano to three years in prison. Rivas-Chairez paid Francisco about $400 in cash for the first purchase and about $500 for the second, court records show. During the Fort Worth sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman called it “one of the worst cases of firearms trafficking I’ve seen.”Rivas-Chairez’s attorney, William Biggs, called his client a family man and skilled mechanic during the hearing and asked for a lesser sentence. He declined to comment after the hearing.
A Fort Worth man was arrested for trying to buy a military-grade M-60 machine gun for delivery to a Mexican drug cartel. Daniel Loyola Jr., 24, pleaded guilty in December 2022 to possession of a machine gun and was sentenced in March to a decade in prison.
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