{"id":594213,"date":"2026-04-19T19:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/594213\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T19:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:40:10","slug":"woodland-hills-woman-shamim-mafi-arrested-at-lax-for-alleged-trafficking-of-drones-bombs-ammo-for-iran-us-prosecutors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/594213\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodland Hills woman Shamim Mafi arrested at LAX for alleged trafficking of drones, bombs, ammo for Iran, US prosecutors say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; A Woodland Hills woman has been arrested for allegedly trafficking arms on behalf of the Iranian government, federal prosecutors said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Shamim Mafi, 44, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday night, according to First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli. She is charged with brokering the sale of drones, bombs, bomb fuses and millions of rounds of ammunition manufactured by Iran and sold to Sudan, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">If convicted, she faces a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Mafi is an Iranian national who became a lawful permanent resident of the United States in 2016, according to Essayli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">She is expected to make her initial appearance Monday afternoon in U.S. District Court in downtown Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">City News Service contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; A Woodland Hills woman has been arrested for allegedly trafficking arms on behalf of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[259019,23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-594213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-259019","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}