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PHOENIX — Two men have pleaded guilty to buying guns that were destined to be smuggled into Mexico, the first convictions in the federal government’s botched Operation Fast and Furious.
The men were “straw buyers” who acknowledged purchasing guns that they knew were headed to Mexico for use by the Sinaloa drug cartel.
The goal of the federal investigation was to catch weapons-trafficking kingpins, but firearms agents lost track of many weapons, and some guns ended up at crime scenes.
Jacob Wayne Chambers and Jacob Anthony Montelongo each admitted to being part of a 20-person smuggling ring that’s accused of running guns.
