Monday, October 30, 2023
Reports of Gun Smuggling to Mexico Recalls Fast and Furious Gunwalking Plot
A weapons supplier to the Los Chapitos faction fighting a cartel war against the sons of Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, GazetteXtra reports. Alfredo Lomas Navarrete, a Culiacán cellphone store owner, “supplied ‘hundreds of weapons and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition’ to the cartel cell, known as the Valenzuela Drug Trafficking Organization. Prosecutors said many of the weapons — which included .50-caliber rifles, machine guns and grenade launchers — were acquired in California, Arizona and Nevada.”
