Posted September 19, 2017 8:30 am by Comments

By Jennifer Cruz

Half of the boxes containing gun parts were found at the Border Patrol station in Arizona, while the other half were found at a personal residence about 60 miles away. (Photo: U.S. District Court)
The trial began last week for two Border Patrol agents who are accused of stealing more than $100,000 worth of gun parts from the agency by using the postal service to ship the parts from the agency’s armory in West Virginia to a Border Patrol station in Arizona.
Agent Jesus Manuel Franco and Agent Edgardo Jose Munoz Cruz were indicted by a federal grand jury in February 2016 on charges of conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, mail fraud, possession and transfer of a machine gun, and theft of government property. Both have been indefinitely suspended, pending the outcome of the trial.
An investigation was launched in January 2015, after a gun barrel was seen sticking out of a cardboard box that had been delivered to the Willcox Station in Arizona via United Parcel Service. Authorities discovered some $50,000 worth of gun parts in packages at the Willcox Station, as well as an additional $50,000 worth of parts in boxes stacked inside Franco’s garage in

Source: Guns.com

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