Two Mexican citizens in the United States on Nimmigrant visas were arrested during a Colorado traffic stop last month while transporting 180,000 rounds of ammunition, authorities said on Wednesday.
César Ramon Martínez Solís, 41, and Humberto Ivan Amador Gavira, 24, both from Mexico, were arrested in Canon City on March 26, said the United States prosecutor’s office – Colorado District in a press release.
Two Fremont County detectives had seen a white Chevrolet pass them without mitigating their headlights, in violation of state law, in accordance with a affidavit bothered by the daily record of Canon City. The detectives said they were not indicated either by becoming a service station and had a defective registration lamp.
Duration The traffic stop, the discovered detectives approached 150 boxes of .308 and approximately 30 boxes of 7.62 ammunition, authorities said. Each box was labeled as it contained 1,000 rounds.
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Mexican citizens were marrying approximately 150 boxes of ammunition .308 and approximately 30 boxes of 7.62 ammunition, authorities said. It was said that each box contained 1,000 rounds of ammunition. (Office of the United States Prosecutor – Colorado District)
Martínez Solís agreed to speak with the special agents of the US Department of National Security and renounce his right to a lawyer, in accordance with the Affidavit.
Martínez Solís told the authorities that he and Amador García, who, according to him, was his brother -in -law, had traveled from Mexico to Denver a day before to buy a vehicle before driving Salt Lake City to look at another vehicle.
In Salt Lake City, the men stopped in a firearms and ammunition store, where Amador García bought the ammunition, according to the affidavit.
“[Martinez Solis] He also explained that he did not know the intention with the ammunition, but that he believed that he was destined for people, “said the sworn statement. People is a city in Colorado located about 113 miles south of Denver.
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Martínez Solís added that the planned fate was on Amador García’s phone, according to the affidavit. The authorities not specifically destiny.
Martínez Solís and Amador García were both with illegal possession of alien ammunition admitted under a nimmigrant visa.
The Denver National Security Research Office and the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the case with the help of the alcohol field, tobacco, firearms and explosives of Denver.
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The authorities said the case is part of Operation Take Back America, a federal initiative designed “to repel the invasion of illegal immigration, achieve total elimination of posters and transnational criminal organizations.”