Arizona
Man gets 3 years in prison for smuggling ammunition in Arizona
PHOENIX — A forty five-year-old Idaho man was sentenced final week to 3 and a half years in jail for smuggling ammunition into Mexico by the Arizona-Mexico border, authorities stated.
Adrian Guadalupe Valdez will serve 42 months in jail after beforehand pleading responsible to smuggling items from the nation, Lawyer Basic Mark Brnovich stated in a press launch.
In April, Customs and Border Safety Officers tried to examine Valdez’s automobile on the Nogales Port of Entry when he then ran in an try to flee into Mexico.
He was taken into custody after extra officers discovered 17,5000 rounds of ammunition within the trunk.
The Division of Homeland Safety, Homeland Safety Investigations and the U.S. Customs and Border Safety Company investigated the case.
