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DeLand men get prison time over trafficking guns to Mexican drug cartels
VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA, AUG 2 – The six men trafficked high-caliber firearms including Barrett .50 caliber rifles to cartels to help control territories, with sentences totaling over 300 years, officials said.
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DOJ: 6 Volusia men sentenced for trafficking ‘military-grade’ guns to Mexican drug cartels
Six Volusia County men have been sentenced to federal prison for smuggling what prosecutors call military-grade weapons to Mexican drug cartels, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday. Prosecutors said DeLand resident Angel Velazquez Delgado, 34, led five others also living in DeLand in purchasing high-caliber guns and reselling them to the La Familia and La Nueva Generacion cartels, according to Velazquez Delgado’s signed plea agreemen…
The organization was made up of at least six people, who bought high-caliber firearms in the United States to be resold to Mexican drug cartels.
The penalty for the six individuals, all between 23 and 34 years old, ranged from eighteen months in prison to nine years.
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