EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Authorities in Juarez, Mexico, say they have expelled an American they allege was one of the “largest provider of illegal firearms” to drug cartels in the border state of Chihuahua.
Chihuahua state police officers and the Mexican army arrested Roland Albert Muñoz, 41, on a highway west of Chihuahua City on Tuesday morning after receiving information from U.S. authorities that he was wanted on gun-running charges in Texas.
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Munoz was taken into custody at 11 a.m. along the Chihuahua-Cuauhtemoc highway near a roadside hotel. He was delivered to the U.S. Marshals Service at the Stanton Street international bridge at 4:40 p.m., according to the Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office.
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The Attorney General’s Office said Muñoz, 41, is a native of Dallas, Texas, and a U.S. citizen although he carried a Mexican voter ID card. Chihuahua authorities also allege he sold guns used in the assassination attempt of a former Mexico City police chief in 2020 and in the murders of a Mexican immigration agent and two state police officers in 2022.
“Derived from the information received, this American citizen is (identified) as one of the major providers of illegal firearms to the cartels in this state,” the Chihuahua Attorney General’s Office said.
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The agency released photos of Muñoz’s expulsion from Mexico and him being taken into custody by the marshals, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers and agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). It also touted binational cooperation on public safety, which has been a cornerstone of President Trump’s foreign policy…