Mexican nationals arrested while transporting 180,000 rounds of ammunition from Utah to Colorado

Two Mexican nationals successful the U.S. connected nonimmigrant visas were arrested during a postulation halt successful Colorado past period portion transporting 180,000 rounds of ammunition, authorities said Wednesday.

Caesar Ramon Martinez Solis, 41, and Humberto Ivan Amador Gavira, 24, some of Mexico, were pulled implicit successful Canon City connected March 26, the U.S. Attorney’s Office – District of Colorado said successful a quality release.

Two Fremont County detectives had spotted a achromatic Chevrolet van passing them without dimming its headlights, successful usurpation of authorities law, according to an apprehension affidavit obtained by the Canon City Daily Record. The detectives said the van besides failed to awesome erstwhile turning into a state presumption and had a defective licence sheet lamp.

During the postulation stop, the detectives discovered astir 150 boxes of .308 ammunition and astir 30 boxes of 7.62 ammunition, officials said. Each container was labeled arsenic containing 1,000 rounds.

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The Mexican nationals were hauling astir 150 boxes of .308 ammunition and astir 30 boxes of 7.62 ammunition, officials said. Each container was said to incorporate 1,000 rounds of ammunition. (U.S. Attorney’s Office – District of Colorado )

Martinez Solis agreed to talk with U.S. Department of Homeland Security peculiar agents and waive his close to an attorney, according to the affidavit.

Martinez Solis told authorities that helium and Amador Garcia, whom helium claimed was his brother-in-law, had traveled from Mexico to Denver a time earlier to acquisition a conveyance earlier driving to Salt Lake City to look astatine different conveyance helium was funny successful buying.

In Salt Lake City, the men stopped astatine a firearms and ammunition store, wherever Amador Garcia bought the ammunition, according to the affidavit.

"[Martinez Solis] further explained that helium did not cognize the intent with the ammunition but that helium believed it was destined for Pueblo," the affidavit stated. Pueblo is simply a metropolis successful Colorado located astir 113 miles southbound of Denver.

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Martinez Solis added that the intended destination was connected Amador Garcia’s phone, according to the affidavit. Authorities did not specify the destination.

Martinez Solis and Amador Garcia were some charged with Unlawful Possession of Ammunition by Alien Admitted Under a Nonimmigrant Visa.

The Denver Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations and the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the lawsuit with assistance from the Denver Field Office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

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Officials said the lawsuit is portion of Operation Take Back America, a national inaugural designed "to repel the penetration of amerciable immigration, execute the full elimination of cartels and transnational transgression organizations."