Federal prosecutors have charged two men from Mexico for allegedly firing guns in a public area east of Phoenix.
Luis Alfonso Hernandez Felix and Jose Romario Zazueta Valenzuela were taken into custody after U.S. Forest Service agents observed “a group of subjects shooting firearms recklessly into the air and down into the ground” at Tonto National Forest, according to a criminal complaint filed October 7 in U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.
Agents on a special multi-agency patrol identified the two men carrying a Glock 9mm semi-automatic and a .45-caliber pistol. The complaint noted they were discharging firearms without a safe backstop while large crowds were nearby…