Grenade Launcher Barrel Smugglers Sentenced To Prison
February 15, 2022 ADI Staff Reporter
On Monday, Alejandro Valles, of Aguila, Arizona, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for smuggling weapons from the United States into Mexico. David Alberto Duarte-Marquez, 21, a Mexican citizen and Valles’ co-conspirator, was to 33 months in prison. Both men pleaded guilty to their offenses.
On October 22, 2018, Valles placed an online order for an M203 40mm grenade launcher barrel. Valles received the barrel and sent the package to another individual in southern Arizona, who then smuggled the barrel into Mexico.
Similarly, on November 26, 2018, Valles’ co-conspirator Duarte-Marquez placed an online order for an M203 40mm grenade launcher barrel with the intent to smuggle it into Mexico. Duarte-Marquez had the barrel shipped to Valles. Once Valles received the barrel, he intended to follow the same steps of sending the package to southern Arizona so it could be smuggled into Mexico. However, the second barrel was intercepted by law enforcement while it was en route to Valles.
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by: Fernie Ortiz
Posted: Feb 16, 2022 / 04:43 PM CST
Updated: Feb 16, 2022 / 04:43 PM CST
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — A federal judge has sentenced an Arizona man and a Mexican man to prison for their role in a scheme to smuggle grenade launchers into Mexico.
Alejandro Valles, 27, of Aguila, Arizona, pleaded guilty to smuggling weapons from the United States into Mexico. U.S. District Judge James A. Soto sentenced him to 15 months in prison, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona.
On Oct. 22, 2018, Valles placed an onlinGrenr for an M203 40mm grenade launcher barrel. When it arrived, Valles sent the package to Southern Arizona, from where an unidentified individual smuggled the barrel into Mexico.
The following month, Valles’ co-conspirator, 21-year-old David Alberto Duarte-Marquez, of Mexico, placed an online order for a similar grenade launcher barrel. Prosecutors say Duarte-Marquez then shipped the barrel to Valles, who again intended to send it to Southern Arizona and ultimately smuggled into Mexico.
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(Didn't they have these in mind when they wrote the Constitutional Amendments? Something similar?)