Customs agents find assault rifles, 2,000 rounds of ammo on ship near Aransas Pass

By Steven Alford
Corpus Christi Caller Times
Posted March 2, 2011 at 8:33 p.m., updated March 2, 2011 at 8:46 p.m.

A routine inspection of a commercial fishing vessel Monday in Aransas Pass yielded two assault rifles and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office reported.

Agents boarded the boat, bound for South America, in Conn Brown Harbor and discovered the weapons inside secret compartments, according to a news release.

Agents found 1,060 rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition and 1,000 rounds of 5.56 mm ammunition.

The captain did not include the cache in his outbound declaration.

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