NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A New Mexico woman is in trouble with the feds, who said she bought a gun for her boyfriend, who’s accused of being a murderer. Bonifacio Silva was 18 years old in January, when he was arrested for the deadly shooting of Tyler Jiron on the Isleta Pueblo in Bosque Farms. Now, his girlfriend is facing federal charges of her own. Sierra Baca is charged with lying under oath and buying Silva, who was on probation, an assault rifle.
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Under oath during a hearing in Silva’s case, Baca said that before the shooting, she had only ever seen Baca with only one gun, an assault rifle that she owned. But when police searched her phone, they found photos of Silva at a gun range shooting a Glock handgun, and photos of them together, with Silva holding that same weapon in his waistband.
Text messages from last April also show Silva instructing Baca to attempt to buy the AR-15,giving her step-by-step instructions on what to ask various gun stores. Baca also posted a picture on her Snapchat story, showing her with at least $2,000 in cash and a caption saying she planned to buy her boyfriend an AR-15…