Mexico arrests US man accused of smuggling grenade parts for Sinaloa cartel

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Mexico arrests US man accused of smuggling grenade parts for Sinaloa cartel
By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, September 6, 3:05 PM

MEXICO CITY — Police have arrested a U.S. man for smuggling American grenade parts into Mexico, where they were assembled for use by the Sinaloa drug cartel, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office identified the man as Jean Baptiste Kingery, but said he used several aliases. It said Kingery allegedly bought weapons parts and grenade casings in U.S. stores and even over the Internet, and smuggled them into Mexico through the border city of Mexicali.

The office said Kingery was arrested late last week in the Pacific Coast city of Mazatlan, in Sinaloa state, in a raid on a house where five guns were found. He is being held under a form of house arrest.

Police also raided five other homes, and found what appeared to have been facilities for assembling grenades, including gunpowder and grenade triggers, pins and caps.



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[Hulk]

1. Now, there is one gringo I would like to see behind bars in Mexico

...and throw away the key. Their prisons are a damn site uglier than ours. If he is guilty...let him rot. Very possibly hundreds of Mexican law enforcement and military families would have felt the pain from his greed and crimes.