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Laurence Gray faces charges for knowingly supplying firearms to two Mexican cartels designated as foreign terrorist organizations in 2025, part of a DOJ effort targeting cartel operations.
- On March 17, a federal grand jury indicted Laurence Gray, a 65-year-old Arizona firearms dealer, on charges of providing material support to two Mexican cartels designated as foreign terrorist organizations.
- Federal prosecutors allege Gray knowingly provided firearms to the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion and the Sinaloa Cartel in 2025, following the State Department's February 20, 2025, designation of both groups as foreign terrorist organizations.
- Previously indicted in 2025 alongside Barrett Weinberger, 73, of Tucson, Gray now faces maximum penalties of up to 20 years in prison per charge and fines up to $250,000.
- Arraigned in federal court on Wednesday, March 25, Gray's case proceeds as part of Operation Take Back America, a nationwide federal effort targeting transnational criminal organizations and securing the Southern border.
- The Justice Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives report that cartels extensively use straw purchasers within the United States to legally acquire and illegally smuggle firearms across the border.
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Hereford Gun Store Owner Charged with Conspiring with Mexican Cartels
A Hereford man, Laurence Gray, owner of Grips By Larry, has been indicted on charges related to providing material support to Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (“CJNG”) and Cartel de Sinaloa (“CDS”), Mexican cartels that were designated as foreign terrorist organizations in 2025. According to the Department of Justice, on March 17, 2026, a federal...
The U.S. Justice has accused two citizens of Arizona of supporting terrorist organizations, for selling arms to the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) and the Sinaloa Cartel, criminal groups that the government, led by Donald Trump, has designated as narcoterrorist organizations. The accusation illuminates a path demanded by Mexico for years, pressured from the north to end organized crime and drug trafficking. The neighbor of the south insi…
Arizona Gun Store Owner Indicted on Terrorism Charges for Allegedly Arming Two Mexican Cartels
A southern Arizona gun store owner is facing federal terrorism charges after prosecutors allege he attempted to supply military-grade weapons to two of Mexico’s most powerful and violent drug cartels — organizations that the U.S. government designated as foreign terrorist organizations earlier this year. Laurence Gray, 65, of Hereford, was arraigned Wednesday in a Phoenix federal courtroom on… Source
Washington.- The Department of Justice announced the first criminal charge in history against the owner of an armory in the United States for materially supporting terrorism by conspiring to send firearms to the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) and the Sinaloa Cartel (CDS). By revealing the accusation issued by a grand jury last week, the Department of Justice made public the charges of material support for terrorism against Laurence Gray,…
Arizona gun dealer armed two Mexican drug cartels, DOJ says | Fox Wilmington WSFX-TV
close Video ‘El Chapo’s’ son admits to running drug cartel Fox News multimedia reporter Caroline Elliott has the latest on Ovidio Guzman Lopez pleading guilty to drug trafficking on ‘Fox Report.’ NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An Arizona firearms dealer was indicted last week by a federal grand jury amid allegations that he provided weapons to at least two Mexican drug cartels, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Laurence Gr…
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