Thread: Navy SEAL, 2 others accused of weapon smuggling

Navy SEAL, 2 others accused of weapon smuggling

By The Associated Press,
Thursday, November 4, 2010 at 10:14 a.m.

LAS VEGAS — Authorities say a Navy special forces SEAL in California and men in Nevada and Colorado are accused of smuggling machine guns from Iraq into the United States for resale on the black market.

Federal officials in Las Vegas said Thursday that 36-year-old Nicholas Bickle of San Diego, 36-year-old Andrew Kaufman of Las Vegas and 34-year-old Richard Paul of Durango, Colo., were arrested Wednesday.

A complaint unsealed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas accuses the trio of conspiring to smuggle and sell 18 weapons and 14 other firearms since June to an undercover federal Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent in Las Vegas and Colorado.

Authorities say the weapons included factory-made Iraqi machine guns that would be difficult or impossible to trace.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010 ... smuggling/

We always have to have a couple bad apples,don't we

UNLESS they were coerced into this by our secret agent men

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