Thread: 4 men arrested for assault rifle purchases

4 men arrested for assault rifle purchases

March 25, 2011 23:25 EDT

DALLAS (AP) -- A federal criminal complaint accuses four Tarrant County men of buying more than $100,000 in assault rifles over the last six months, including one used in a shootout in Mexico that killed eight people.

KXAS-TV reported that the four were arrested Thursday by agents of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. They face charges of conspiracy to deal in firearms without a license.

The complaint alleges the men bought 129 assault rifles since October. The ATF said one was had been used in an "altercation" with the Mexican Navy in which eight people were killed.

The details match a shootout on March 1 in the city of Valle Hermoso, near Matamoros, which is across the border from Brownsville, Texas.

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Curiously this doesn't appear in press releases from BATF http://www.atf.gov/ or the U.S. Attroney's Office for the Northern District of Texas http://www.justice.gov/usao/txn/pressreleases.html

Originally Posted by artclam

Curiously this doesn't appear in press releases from BATF http://www.atf.gov/ or the U.S. Attroney's Office for the Northern District of Texas http://www.justice.gov/usao/txn/pressreleases.html

they might still be trying to put 2 and 2 together to get 4