Guardsmen arrested for selling arms to Feds
One of our ninjas sends us a link to the U-T San Diego which reports that two California Guardsmen, Jaime Casillas and Andrew Reyes were arrested for selling weapons to an undercover agent working with a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration task force who was pretending to be from the Mexican drug cartels;
Casillas sold the supposed cartel man 1,600 rounds of .223-caliber ammunition – later identified as U.S. military inventory – for $700, the affidavit states.
In a second buy, Casillas sold the agent a .40-caliber pistol for $800 from his El Cajon mobile home, saying the gun had already been used to “do a job” in Tijuana, the document says.
About a month later, Reyes sold the agent an AK-47 for $1,700, authorities say.
Several similar firearms sales followed over the next several months, including an AR-15 with a fake serial number, an expensive AR-15 with a mounted scope, hundreds of AR-15 ammunition magazines, and a .45 caliber pistol described as “hot,” meaning it had been used in a crime or was stolen. In December, Reyes sold the agent 20 ceramic trauma (bullet-resistant) plates that are inserted into ballistic vests for $2,000, telling the agent that the gear was from the military, court records say.
I guess the Feds are upset that the two were undercutting the government’s sales to Mexican cartels.
Category: Politics
Finally, National Guardsmen in the news who I don’t personally know. I was starting to think that it was me.
Oh no, not a couple of frigging mexican guardsmen? probably slipped over the border!
“Don’t steal. The Gooberment hates competition.”
$1700 for 700 rounds of .223? What a ripoff!
I probably know which trailer park in El Cajon this asswipe crawled out of, too.
“I guess the Feds are upset that the two were undercutting the government’s sales to Mexican cartels.”
My sentiments exactly.
Couldn’t they have gotten better prices from Heisenberg?
He did not get enough for the plates, that is the real crime here, the Feds basically stole them at that price.
The way the story reads it sounds like they had a few items from the military but last I looked AR-15’s, an AK-47 and a .40 pistol are not National Guard ware. Were they perps that happen to be guardsmen or guardsmen that were perps? There is a difference. Did they get the stuff through their position or in an unrelated crime.
Also in recent years law enforcement in CA does have a flare for the dramatic as in rocket Launchers bought in buyback which were empty tubes. 1600 for 700 rounds sounds like a government buy back program, took a look online and that is a possible 25% markup or more.
Government think at its finest just look the Democratic proposed $2000 tax credit for an “assault weapon turned into the government, you can buy some new for less than $1000, what a deal.
The charges DO NOT include theft of military property. So, even though stories quickly point out that the two worked in an armory, suggesting that they stole weapons and weapons-related hardware to sell, there are no charges supporting that. Might there be? Yes, but at this point none.
They are both in AKO as members of the CA ARNG.