Bolivia intercepts weapons bound for Brazil [View all]
Bolivia intercepts weapons bound for Brazil
5:25 AM Sunday Nov 9, 2014
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) Bolivian police have intercepted a shipment of machine guns and other weapons they say were being sent from the United States to Brazil.
Interior Minister Jorge Perez said Friday that rifles and pistols were among the 37 weapons found at a residence in Santa Cruz, about 250 miles (400 kilometers) east of La Paz.
Police were trying to determine which criminal group was behind the shipment, Perez said.
The find was the fourth such discovery in the last six months, he said. Last month, authorities stopped a U.S. shipment of German- and Austrian-made weapons that was being sent to a Bolivian shipping company.
Perez said Bolivia is being used as a transit point for illegal shipments of weapons destined for use by criminal organizations in other countries.
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