A man identified as Néstor Alfredo García has been formally charged for his alleged involvement in a criminal network dedicated to arms trafficking between the United States and Mexico.
According to investigations by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), the organization recruited individuals to use their credit cards and U.S. addresses—in exchange for money—to receive weaponry purchased online.
Once the weapons were received, the criminal network smuggled them across the border at Nogales, Sonora, a city bordering Arizona.
The gang allegedly consisted of between 15 and 20 people. Official reports detailed that once the weaponry—firearms, ammunition, and explosives—was collected in the United States, it was illegally brought into Mexico via Nogales for transport to its final destination: Culiacán, Sinaloa.
This city is the epicenter of the conflict between factions of the Sinaloa Cartel that has been affecting the public since September 2024.
García was already being held at the “Nor-Poniente” Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 8 in Guasave, Sinaloa, when agents from the FGR’s Federal Ministerial Police served him with an arrest warrant while in custody; a judge subsequently ordered that he be formally charged.
