Two men were arrested after authorities found 30 handguns allegedly destined for Mexico hidden in a spare tire during an inspection on the\u00a0southern border\u00a0in Texas, officials said Friday.<\/p>\n
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) seized the weapons this week at the Anzalduas Port of Entry in Mission, a town on the Texas-Mexico border, the agency said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
DPS special agents searched a 2015 Chevy pickup as part of a multi-agency task force with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the inspection, special agents discovered 30 handguns, including a 5.7-caliber FN Herstal, 60 magazines and one speed loader concealed inside the vehicle\u2019s spare tire,\u201d a DPS news release states.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to a DPS official, the 5.7-caliber FN Herstal is known as a \u201ccop-killer\u201d weapon because the ammunition can pierce body armor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Investigators later discovered one of the handguns was reported stolen out of Austin, authorities said.<\/p>\n
During an inspection, special agents discovered 30 handguns, including a 5.7-caliber FN Herstal, 60 magazines and one speed loader concealed inside a vehicle\u2019s spare tire. Texas Department of Public Safety<\/p>\n
Mexican resident Luis Torres Mujica was driving at the time of the stop. Hidalgo County<\/p>\n
Texas resident Jesse Joe Camacho was in the passenger seat when he was arrested. Hidalgo County<\/p>\n
The firearms were allegedly destined for Guanajuato in Mexico, where gun ownership is heavily restricted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The driver, Luis Torres Mujica, 30,\u00a0a resident of Guanajuato, and his passenger, Jesse Joe Camacho, 28, of\u00a0McAllen, Texas, were arrested and charged with theft of property and firearm smuggling, a second-degree felony.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were arrested after authorities found 30 handguns allegedly destined for Mexico hidden in a spare tire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4028,16610,1468,18398,27,29,28,5029,734],"class_list":["post-78426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-arrests","tag-guns","tag-mexico","tag-smuggling","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-us-border","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}