Juarez City.- A federal Control judge linked to the process Ángel Alexis V., 23, and Martín Merleclarense JR, 25, for violation of the Federal Law on Firearms and Explosives.
The judge ratified the precautionary measure of preventive detention and granted the Federal Public Ministry a period of two months to close the investigation, the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) reported.
Both people, who were reported to be ex-Marines in the United States, were detained by municipal police officers on Rafael Murguía and Oasis de Génova streets, in the Praderas de los Oasis subdivision.
Officers apprehended these individuals who were allegedly carrying firearms, bullets, and tactical vests.
A statement from the corporation states that the uniformed officers noticed that a man with a ballistic vest on got out of a gray Ford Escape 2016 truck.
As a result of this action, they stopped their march to verify the situation, and when approaching him, he got out of the car for a second, who was questioned if they belonged to a security corporation, “giving the answer no.”
Faced with this situation, it was announced that a preventive inspection was carried out, finding inside the car a .22 caliber long weapon with a magazine stocked with 30 bullets, a 7.62 by 39 caliber rifle (‘goat’s horn’) with 11 useful cartridges, in addition to a pistol with the legend 5.7 by 28 millimeters with 20 cartridges.
Likewise, four chargers stocked with 30 .223 caliber bullets each, a charger stocked with 17 .223 caliber bullets, two black ballistic vests, and binoculars.
