The U.S. Attorney's office in New Mexico said the mayor of Columbus, Eddie Espinoza, the town's police chief Angelo Vega, and village trustee Blas Gutierrez were among those arrested on an 84-count indictment.
The operation comes days after U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder ordered an investigation into a controversial ATF operation that allowed guns bought in the United States to slip into Mexico, in the hope of nabbing major drug kingpins.
The U.S. Attorney's office said every effort had been made to seize firearms from defendants nabbed in Columbus to prevent them from entering Mexico. It added that no guns were knowingly allowed to cross the border.
Yeah, I'm sure the official line is something like, "Gee, we have no idea where all those AKs went..."
Columbus NM is remembered mostly for being attacked by Pancho Villa in 1916.
Our Mexican cross-border culture is one culture with a line drawn through it from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean and called two cultures by people who think the line makes a difference.
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