Volume 6
AZ CBP Officers Stop Weapons, Ammo
Headed for Mexico
July-Aug 2016 Edition
Five days earlier (June 29), officers conducting
southbound inspections at the Dennis DeConcini
crossing referred a 24-year-old Nogales man for a
secondary inspection of a Volkswagen sports wagon. When searching the back of the vehicle, they
discovered a number of items beneath clothing.
The items included two AR-15 tactical rifles, seven
magazines and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition.
Officers seized the vehicles and contraband, and
referred both subjects to U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.
Our officers have to think quickly. They have to exercise their
hand-eye coordination and they have to engage that threat,”
said Area Port Director Timothy Walker. “Whether that threat
is a deadly force situation or not, we don’t know because we
have different scenarios that we can run with the simulator. It
is a truly a breakthrough in training technology.”
US CBP officers arrested two Nogales, Arizona
residents recently for attempting to smuggle tactical rifles with magazines and ammunition into Mexico through the Port of Nogales.
When officers selected a southbound Dodge sedan, driven by a 22-year-old local woman, for a
secondary inspection on July 4 at the Nogales
West Mariposa crossing, they found 10,000 rounds
of tactical ammunition in the vehicle’s trunk.
CBP officers at the Nogales West Mariposa crossing
discovered and seized 10,000 rounds of tactical ammunition from a Nogales, Ariz. woman before she could
proceed southbound into Mexico.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified
border agency within the Department of Homeland
Security charged with the management, control
and protection of our nation’s borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged
with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of
the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.
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