The Department of Justice arrested five men in Texas this week and accused them of illegally purchasing firearms with the goal of later smuggling them across the border with Mexico and selling them to drug cartels, the Texas Tribune reported.
The suit details that a man, Gerardo Rafael Perez Jr. of Laredo coordinated the purchase of more than 100 arms with said purpose. Four others aided him in his goal of transporting them to Nuevo Laredo, in Mexico.
