Adrew Scott Pierson manufactured automatic weapons for the Northeast Cartels and the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartels for which he pleaded guilty before a district judge for violating the Arms Export Control Act, revealed the United States Department of Justice (DOJ, for its acronym in English).
The Oklahoma citizen surrendered to the United States authorities on December 10, 2018. He admitted to having ordered and received parts of firearms from the neighboring country to the north and to manufacture automatic weapons in our country for said criminal organizations.
Subsequently, in September 2019, a US federal jury charged Adrew Scott and seven other people with trafficking in counterfeit products and violating the Arms Export Control Act in that country.
Through a statement, the DOJ revealed that of these people, five have pleaded guilty and one more is a fugitive in our country.
United States District Judge Brian S. Miller will be tasked with sentencing Pierson at a later date.
“This case is the first successful prosecution in the country for the export and manufacture of firearms by Mexican cartels,” stated Acting Federal Prosecutor Jonathan D. Ross. “We are proud that this investigation has made it difficult for violent cartels to obtain firearms, and we intend to prosecute any case that helps keep weapons out of the reach of these criminal organizations.”
The Department disclosed that Pierson’s crime is punishable by more than 20 years in prison, a fine of no more than a million dollars.
The case was investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the US Postal Inspection Service with the help of Homeland Security Investigations. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Anne Gardner.
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