US authorities seize 43,000 rounds of ammunition headed for Mexico

U.S. authorities past week seized 43,000 rounds of ammunition successful 2 abstracted stops astatine 1 of the 4 planetary borderline crossings successful Nogales, Arizona.

In a Monday societal media post, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ronald Johnson said the seizure astatine the Mariposa Port of Entry reaffirms the U.S. government’s committedness to disarming cause cartels and stopping the amerciable travel of weapons to Mexico.

The borderline officials recovered 40 boxes successful 1 of the stops and 44 successful the other, a haul that an OFO spokesperson attributed to modern non-intrusive exertion that allows officials to place contraband earlier entering oregon stopping a vehicle. (U.S. CPB-OFO)

Johnson said the operations progressive U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and its Office of Field Operations (OFO), arsenic good arsenic national agents from Tucson, Arizona. 

The identities of the suspected smugglers person not been released.

The CBP enactment was primitively disclosed connected June 18. OFO Executive Assistant Commissioner Diane J. Sabatino said successful a societal media post that CBP officers discovered 40 boxes containing 15,000 rounds of ammunition successful 1 conveyance and 44 boxes containing 28,000 rounds of 7.62×39 ammunition successful another. The 7.62×39 ammunition is utilized successful battle weapons specified arsenic the AK-47.

Johnson said the U.S. cognition “demonstrates the worth of precocious non-intrusive inspection exertion for identifying and stopping illicit activities.”

These technologies let for the inspection of vehicles and goods without the request for an archetypal carnal inspection, facilitating the detection of weapons, ammunition and different amerciable products.

“No substance what method is used, criminals should cognize that we volition find them,” Johnson said, adding that practice betwixt Mexico and the United States contributes to strengthening the information of some nations.

STOPPED AT THE PORT
Same port. Same day. Two outbound seizures.
CBP officers discovered 40 boxes containing 15,000 rounds of ammunition successful 1 conveyance and 44 boxes containing 28,000 rounds of 7.62×39 ammunition successful another.
A full of 43,000 rounds stopped astatine the port.#OFOproud🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/huIxmniuc2

— Executive Asst. Commissioner Diane J. Sabatino (@OFOEAC) June 18, 2026

The Mariposa larboard of introduction is 1 of the main commercialized crossings betwixt Mexico and the United States, chiefly comprising freight transport operations. It is among the strategical checkpoints utilized by U.S. information agencies to place activities related to cross-border trafficking.

This month’s bust comes 3 months aft CBP reported that members of the Nogales Contraband Enforcement Team seized much than 47,000 rounds of ammunition headed to Mexico during 4 weeks successful February. 

Just a fewer weeks later, CBP officers astatine the aforesaid larboard of introduction seized much than 120 pounds of methamphetamine successful 2 abstracted enforcement actions. 

With reports from La Jornada, Uno TV and La Silla Rota