Article - A couple of cases of effective enforcement of current laws

[Xela]

Within this sensationalist article, I rescued a couple of positive note.


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•Marvin O. Acevedo, a 35-year-old Guatemalan, was sentenced to four years in prison in February after he pleaded guilty to one charge of intent to illegally export firearms.

Authorities say the Richardson resident purchased more than 10 Belgian-made FN Five-Sevens and several thousand rounds of ammunition from gun dealers and gun shows in North Texas and elsewhere, according to documents in federal court in Dallas. Acevedo was linked in court documents to a narcotics cartel in Guatemala.

•Jose Ranulfo Perez-Castaneda, a 73-year-old Guatemalan, was arrested outside a gun show in Mesquite in February. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents saw a vendor hand Perez-Castaneda two pistols, later identified as FN Five-Sevens, according to a court affidavit. Perez-Castaneda pleaded guilty Thursday in Dallas federal court to one count of illegal firearms possession with intent to export.

•In two weeks in a federal court in Plano, 25-year-old Norberto Estrada and 29-year-old Victor M. Villalpando are expected to plead guilty to charges of attempting to export and send 20 firearms and 4,000 rounds of ammunition to Mexico. Among the firearms were nearly a dozen Romanian-made AK-47 clones found after a traffic stop in Denton County in October.

An affidavit in the case said the pair were part of an active criminal investigation of trafficking into Mexico.

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The rest of the article:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/local/stories/DN-gunsside_17int.ART.State.Edition1.4a8f6ec.html

Xela

[X_Digger]

1. Interesting that ICE was responsible for two of these..

I wish the BATFE were better funded and more involved in these investigations.

[jeepnstein]

2. Three wins for the good guys.