Five Men in Texas Accused of Trafficking Guns to Mexican Cartels

Published on March 26, 2024

The Department of Justice arrested five men across Texas, accusing them of illegally purchasing firearms and trafficking them to Mexican drug cartels, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas announced on March 25. In a superseding indictment on March 6, each of the men arrested was also charged with conspiracy to straw purchase firearms and to smuggle the weapons across the U.S.-Mexico border. Both offenses were established by the 2022 federal Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. Gerardo Rafael Perez Jr., 23, of Laredo, was arrested on March 20 and accused of coordinating the purchase of more than 100 firearms with the intent to smuggle them across the border to Nuevo, Laredo, Mexico, according to court documents....

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