DEA: Assault weapons cache destined for Zetas

Six indicted in case involving 67 guns taken in Guadalupe County in July

By Guillermo Contreras
gcontreras@express-news.net
Updated 10:27 p.m., Monday, October 24, 2011

A cache of 67 high-powered firearms seized in July in Guadalupe County was a shipment intended for the Zetas drug cartel in Piedras Negras, Mexico, federal officials said Monday.

The revelation came during a bail hearing in San Antonio for two of six suspects indicted on charges of conspiracy to smuggle goods from the United States and of aiding and abetting.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Pamela Mathy ordered Antonio Fidalgo-Cabello, 18, and Jessica Carolina Martinez, 31, both of Eagle Pass, held without bail after hearing an agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration testify that the guns — hidden in a stack of gypsum wallboard on a trailer towed by a pickup — were “destined for individuals associated with the Zetas gang in Mexico.â€