Police in Colorado got the shock of their lives during a routine traffic stop when they discovered a pair of Mexican Nationals with 180,000 rounds of rifle ammo in their vehicle.
The officers of the Fremont County Sheriffs Dept. pulled over Caesar Ramon Martinez Solis, 41, and Humberto Ivan Amador Gavira, 24, were driving a van with a broken license plate lamp and turned off the road in from of police without using a turn signal. The drivers also did not dim their lights from high beam while passing the police car which was going the opposite way, that being a violation of state law. All this led officers to pull the van over for a traffic stop.
They soon became suspicious of the occupants of the van and initiated a search. What they found shocked them.
“During the traffic stop, the detectives discovered approximately 150 boxes of .308 ammunition and approximately 30 boxes of 7.62 ammunition, officials said. Each box was labeled as containing 1,000 rounds,” Fox News reported.
That is a crap ton of ammo, folks.
Police also discovered that both Solis and Gavira were Mexican nationals in the US on temporary visitor visas.
Solis said he did not know what all that ammo was for, but was told it was headed for Pueblo, Colorado. Garcia claimed he bought the ammo from a gun store in Salt Lake City, Utah.
But this is highly suspicious. No American can just drop by a gun shop and buy 180,000 rounds of ammo. That huge amount has to be specially arranged for. Either that, or whoever bought it all had to spend a lot of time driving around to dozens of gun stores to make the purchases in small batches. No store would have that much just sitting around on hand. So, this stash is extremely suspicious.
It seems likely this ammo was headed to drug cartel members somewhere.
Fox News notes that the Denver Field Office of Homeland Security Investigation is now investigating.
Martinez Solis and Amador Garcia have now been charged with Unlawful Possession of Ammunition by Alien Admitted Under a Nonimmigrant Visa.
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