California Brothers Admit Selling Guns They Believed Were Bound for Mexico

"Ghost guns" seized in federal law enforcement actions are displayed in a file photo at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) field office in Glendale, Calif., on April 18, 2022. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

SAN DIEGO—Two brothers from Riverside County who sold more than 30 guns to undercover law enforcement officers they believed would smuggle the weapons into Mexico pleaded guilty in San Diego Oct. 19 to federal charges.

Homero Cervantes Rosales, 38, and Mauricio Cervantes Rosales, 28, both of Perris, admitted to selling guns and silencers for an estimated value of $60,000 to undercover agents posing as drug traffickers, as well as one “cooperating individual.”