The Department of Justice arrested five men across Texas, accusing them of illegally purchasing firearms and trafficking them to Mexican drug cartels, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas announced on March 25.
In a superseding indictment on March 6, each of the men arrested was also charged with conspiracy to straw purchase firearms and to smuggle the weapons across the U.S.-Mexico border. Both offenses were established by the 2022 federal Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.
