OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – Omaha’s FBI office announced agents seized more than 70 guns and over $40,000 in cash in a gun trafficking investigation.
Agents arrested Jose Gerardo Ruiz-Alonso, 36, on gun charges. He is allegedly in the country illegally after overstaying a tourist visa in 2012.
Court records reveal a bank tipped off investigators after Ruiz-Alonso’s business showed signs of money laundering. That led investigators to discover his alleged side business dealing firearms.
Agents sent a confidential informant to Ruiz-Alonso’s business in South Omaha to buy a gun. Investigators say Ruiz-Alonso took the informant to a side room in his warehouse where at least 15 guns were on the counter. Ruiz-Alonso allegedly sold three guns to the informant.
When the FBI raided his home and business this week, agents found 71 guns and thousands of dollars in cash…