U.S. Customs and Border Protection seizes 10,000 rounds of ammo, AR-15s from woman heading to Mexico

Posted: Thursday, July 7, 2016 3:43 pm

Will Axford, Houston Chronicle



Two Nogales, Arizona, residents were apprehended by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in separate incidents during the past two weeks for trying to smuggle ammunition and firearms into Mexico.

According to the agency, a 22-year-old woman was caught Monday with 10,000 rounds of ammunition in the trunk of her Dodge sedan at the Port of Nogales at the U.S.-Mexico border in southern Arizona.


The woman's vehicle and the ammunition were seized by agents, according to a release from the federal agency. The woman's identity was not released.


Five days earlier on June 29, agents found two AR-15 firearms, seven magazines and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition in the back of a 24-year-old Nogales man's Volkswagen sports wagon.


Agents seized the man's vehicle, firearms, ammunition and magazines. His identity was not released.


Both the man and woman were turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations after they were searched and the vehicles were seized.


Nogales straddles the U.S.-Mexico border along Interstate 19, with part of the city in Arizona and part in the Mexican state of Sonora.


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