Arizona Gun Store Owner Re-Arrested on Terrorism Support Charges for Selling to CDS & CJNG Straw Buyers

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The owner of a closed gun shop in Sierra Vista, Arizona, a small town of 40,000 people near the Mexico border was indicted for a second time last week on charges related to providing material support to CJNG and CDS, Mexican cartels that were designated as foreign terrorist organizations, FTOs in 2025. 

Laurence Gray, 65, of Hereford, Arizona a former FFL (federal firearms licensee) under Grips By Larry, and owner of gun store The Other Guys Guns & Ammo is the first US citizen to be charged for Attempting to Provide Material Support to a Foreign Terrorist Organization and Conspiracy to Provide Support to a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization in relation to arms trafficking.

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Bulgarian Arms Trafficker & Ugandan Government Official Charged with Supplying Weapons to CJNG

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Dimitrov Mirchev, a prolific arms trafficker from Bulgaria, who once supplied weapons to Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, is said to be the head of a weapons trafficking network that supplied the CJNG military-grade using falsified documents in Africa. 

The group also met with cartel members in Europe and Africa to conspire to provide the CJNG with machine guns, rocket launchers, grenades, night vision equipment, sniper rifles, anti-personnel mines, and anti-aircraft weapons. 

The U.S. Department of Justice unveiled the indictment against four foreigners, led by one from Bulgaria and three from Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, accused of drug trafficking and providing military weapons to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

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Possible RPG Being Smuggled into Sonora, Mexico Seized at Nogales Border Crossing

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UPDATE: Based on online analysis of the photos, it appears to be an inert style RPG replica used for training purposes. 

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In Querétaro, A Group That Trafficked Arms Between The United States And Canada Is Dismantled

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This article was translated and reposted from EL UNIVERSAL 

WRITTEN BY: SIRSE ROSAS

AUGUST 8, 2024

The governor recognizes the work of the Navy in different parts of the entity

Mexico must continue to have a firm response to the trafficking of arms into the country from the United States, because "they provide the weapons and we provide the dead people," exclaimed Governor Mauricio Kuri González, speaking about the operation carried out by the Navy in Querétaro.

This past Wednesday morning, the Historic Center of Queretaro's capital and six other points of Queretaro experienced an image never seen before, with the presence of elements of the Secretariat of the Navy in the state, leading an operation that led to the dismantling of a criminal cell that trafficked weapons from the United States and Canada, which operated in different parts of the country.

In this regard, the state governor acknowledged that the issue of security is something that must be addressed every day and acknowledged that "it will always be worrying" to find criminal gangs like these in Queretaro; however, he assured that the state continues to maintain its security levels and stressed that they were caught by the Semar.

"To tell (Queretaro residents) that they can rest assured, that in Queretaro we have a good police force, that we are responding and that Queretaro continues to have good levels of security," said Kuri Gonzalez.

He indicated that since it is a federal issue, it is up to the authorities who headed the operation to release the results; however, he acknowledged the work of said authorities for having discovered and dismantled the criminal cell.

"These are federal crimes, they do their job and we only help them if they ask for our support. The important thing is that (the gang) was caught by the Navy and that is good news. I believe that the good news is that this gang was discovered and attacked and that the federal government acted accordingly," said the governor.

Mauricio Kuri recalled when in 2021, then Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard filed a lawsuit against a dozen U.S. companies that manufacture weapons that arrive in Mexico and are used by criminals and drug traffickers to generate violence in the country, a strategy that the governor of Querétaro described as good.

"When Marcelo Ebrard denounced the U.S. arms companies, I think it was a good decision, there has to be much more pressure because they literally provide the weapons and we provide the dead people, so it is very important that this continues to be discussed and that Mexico continues to have a firm response in this regard," he stressed.

SOURCE: EL UNIVERSAL 

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