The defendants also allegedly assisted the confidential informant and undercover agents in completing ATF firearms transaction records in which the informant and agents falsely represented that they were the actual purchasers of the firearms.Īccording to the indictment, the firearms sold by the defendants included 27 AK-47-type rifles, three AR-15 rifles, two. The defendants allegedly removed the ammunition from its original packaging and repackaged the ammunition in black canvas bags to conceal it from law enforcement. The indictment further alleges that, on six occasions between April 20 and July 29, 2011, the defendants sold an aggregate of 16 firearms and more than 7,000 rounds of ammunition to a confidential informant and undercover agents with the understanding that the informant and agents intended to illegally smuggle the firearms and ammunition into Mexico. The indictment seeks forfeiture of the firearms and ammunition involved in the defendants' alleged unlawful activities, the proceeds of their alleged unlawful activities, the real property on which New Deal is located, New Deal's assets and licenses, and a money judgment in the amount of $36,000.Īccording to the indictment, in July and August 2010, Ryin Reese sold 18 firearms to an individual who arranged to smuggle them into Mexico, where they were transferred into the hands of Mexican Cartel members.
It also charges them with conspiring unlawfully to launder proceeds from the sales of firearms and ammunition illegally exported from the United States to Mexico.
The indictment alleges that, between April 2010 and July 2011, the defendants conspired to make false statements in connection with acquiring firearms and illegally exporting them to Mexico. All four defendants are scheduled to make their initial appearances in the federal courthouse on Sept. His wife, Terri Reese, 48, and his sons, Ryin Reese, 24, and Remington Reese, 19, all of whom assisted in operating New Deal, were also arrested that morning.
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Rick Reese, 55, the holder of a federal firearms license and owner/operator of Old Ironsides LLC (doing business as "New Deal Shooting Sports" (New Deal)) was arrested Tuesday morning in Las Cruces, N.M. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and later expanded to include the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the U.S.
These arrests were the result of an intense seven-month investigation that was spearheaded by U.S. gun shop, his wife and their two sons were arrested on firearms-smuggling and money-laundering charges in a 30-count indictment unsealed the same day. On Tuesday morning, the owner of a Deming, N.M.
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