New Mexico Woman Sentenced for Conspiracy to Export Firearms Into Mexico
Carmen Gallegos, a New Mexico woman, was sentenced last week to 50 months in prison for participating in a scheme to buy firearms in Texas and New Mexico and export them to Mexico, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western…
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District of Texas announced. Gallegos participated in a conspiracy to buy at least 23 firearms over two months, then smuggle them into Mexico. She listed a Texas address on three different Firearm Transaction Records when her actual place of residence was in New Mexico, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. She pleaded guilty in June to conspiracy to smuggle goods from the U.S.