Authorities said Wednesday that two Mexican nationals were arrested on two non-immigrant visas in the United States while transporting 180,000 rounds of ammunition during a traffic stop in Colorado last month.
Caesar Ramon Martinez Solis, 41, and Humberto Ivan Amador Gavira, 24, of Mexico, were evacuated in Canon on March 26, the U.S. Attorney’s Office – the Colorado District said in a press release.
According to Canon Daily Records, two Fremont County detectives found a white Chevrolet van passing their headlights, violating state law and state law. Detectives said the van also did not signal when it turned into a gas station and had a defective license plate light.
During traffic stops, detectives found about 150 boxes of .308 ammunition and about 30 boxes of 7.62 ammunition, officials said. Each box is marked as containing 1,000 rounds.
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Mexican nationals are dragging about 150 boxes of .308 ammunition and about 30 boxes of 7.62 boxes of ammunition, officials said. Each box is said to contain 1,000 rounds of ammunition. (U.S. Attorney’s Office – Colorado Area)
Martinez Solis agreed to speak with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s special agent and waived his rights as an attorney, the affidavit said.
Martinez Solis told authorities that he and Amador Garcia, who he claimed to be his brother-in-law, headed from Mexico to Denver a day ago and drove to Salt Lake City to see another car he was interested in buying.
In Salt Lake City, the men stopped at gun and ammunition stores, where Amador Garcia bought ammunition, the affidavit said.
“[Martinez Solis] Further explaining that he did not know the intention of the ammunition, but he thought it was destined to be Pueblo,” the affidavit said. Pueblo is a city in Colorado, about 113 miles south of Denver.
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Martinez Solis added that the booked destination was on the phone of Amador Garcia, the affidavit said. The authorities did not specify a destination.
Both Martinez Solis and Amador Garcia were admitted to foreigners who were non-immigrant visas for illegal possession of ammunition.
The Denver Homeland Security Investigation Office and the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office are helping Denver’s Denver Field Office for Alcohol, Tobacco, Guns and Explosive.
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Officials said the case was part of an action Take America, a federal initiative to “repel invasion of illegal immigrants and achieve the complete elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations.”
