National Guardsman charged for smuggling firearms to China

[June4th]

While chatting with my brother in China yesterday, he brought up the news about a joint sting op between FBI and Shanghai Police.

The smuggling ring shipped guns using common carriers, UPS I believe. Chinese customs X-ray incoming packages and found some packages marked as audio/video equipments looked odd. The Chinese guy in Shanghai got busted red-handed when he showed up to pick up the package (package marked for in-person pickup only).

Chinese police arrested 23 suspects, 66 guns and 50,000+ rounds of ammunition. (from Chinese news source).

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/national_guard_soldier_arrested_iqsT07pSSY4jcpS9pCew8I

A soldier with an elite National Guard unit has been arrested and charged with illegally smuggling sophisticated firearms - including assault rifles and pistols - from New York City to China.

Federal prosecutors say that Joseph Debose, a staff sergeant in a U.S. National Guard Special Forces Unit in North Carolina, was caught packing a loaded .45-caliber pistol and in possession of a dozen guns that he was allegedly planning to ship to China.

"Joseph Debose is a member of the special forces community," Brooklyn Assistant US Attorney Seth DuCharme told a federal judge earlier today.

 

[Reptile]

Chinese police arrested 23 suspects, 66 guns and 50,000+ rounds of ammunition. (from Chinese news source).

Is that a cache or an arsenal?

 

[June4th]

Is that a cache or an arsenal?

At 2-3 guns, and 2K rounds per average buyer, they were just getting started. I was just about to tell them about the NES group buys!

 

[Scarecrow]

Is that a cache or an arsenal?

"A good start"

 

[CadillacGolfer]

Must be a fake story, it said from New York. Everybody knows there are absolutely no guns in New York.

 

[Len-2A Training]

Will they be doing the executions before or after the trial over there?

That's about as stupid a stunt as any brainless person could come up with. They won't get punished like a MA court would do that is for sure!

 

[atmay]

Will they be doing the executions before or after the trial over there?

That's about as stupid a stunt as any brainless person could come up with. They won't get punished like a MA court would do that is for sure!

....oh? No LTC? 30 days probation. You're all set!

 

[kid_fisto]

Yeah somebody gonna die. China don't play with guns or drugs. It says death to drug traffickers on the way in there.