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| CBP seizes almost 3000 rounds of ammunition |
| 2010-03-28 |
| U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized almost 3,000 rounds of ammunition, several ammunition clips and arrested a Matamoros man, authorities said. Julio Salazar Galan, 19, was arrested Wednesday noon at the B&M International Bridge after CBP officers found the 2,880 rounds of ammunition and six ammunition clips for assault rifles hidden in the spare tire of his vehicle, said a criminal complaint filed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He was charged with importation of ammunition without proper documentation. On Thursday morning, Salazar went before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald Morgan who ordered he be held without bond until a detention hearing next week and remanded him to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. The seizure took place when Salazar drove a 2003 Chevrolet TrailBlazer on the southbound lane of the bridge by CBP officers at a checkpoint, who referred him to a secondary inspection area, said a CBP press release. Inside the spare tire of the SUV, CBP officers discovered 18 plastic bags containing the ammunition. In total, CBP seized 13 armor piercing rounds, 650 rounds of M-30 caliber ammunition, 1,827 rounds of .223 caliber ammunition and 390 rounds of 9mm ammunition, the release said. Officers also recovered five ammunition clips for .223 caliber rounds and one clip for 7.62mm rounds. Once in custody, Galan told special agents with ICE that on March 15 he had been approached at a bus stop in Brownsville by an unidentified man who asked him if he wanted to make some quick money by taking "tiros" into Mexico, records show. On Wednesday, Salazar met with the man who took him to an undisclosed location where they loaded the tire under the SUV. Salazar was supposed to cross the bridge and wait for some men to flag him down on the other side where he would turn over the tire and get paid $500, ICE said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 make that 50 cents per round. or $1500. Then again if you stole it from an armory in Mexico or a Police station and just needed some shmuck to transport it to a buyer.... |
| Posted by: TomAnon 2010-03-28 17:32 |
| #2 $500 to transport that fairly small amount of ammo? Seems like a lot to pay when you could probably get the same, less the AP, for about $.50 legally here and that's before you start scrounging the guns shows and such. Not quite adding up |
| Posted by: TomAnon 2010-03-28 17:30 |
| #1 13 armor piercing rounds? 13 is not many but still a concern. What kind of armor do they pierce and what caliber? Many of the MSM believe that any firearm or round is scary. Naively, they want a world without firearms; but mostly they want to disarm the legally armed who they perceive as a threat. Legally armed citizens as a group are one of the most law-abiding despite these left-wing perceptions. Nearly every country that disarmed its citizens was well on the road to central control of its citizens and tyranny. This resulted in the deaths of millions. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-03-28 11:48 |