The Associated Press today wrote an article regarding the arrest of 18 people in a arms smuggling ring. The goods being delt would have been grenade launchers, shoulder-fired missles and other weapons made in Russia. They were to be smuggled into the United by way of a patriotic informant.
One suspect was Artur Solomonyan, an Armenian living in New York and Los Angeles. A second was Christiaan Dewet Spies, a South African, living in New York.It appears they were the two points of contact for the informant and were coordinating the arms sale.
It appears from the article, the informant continued to deal with the smugglers and worked w/the FBI to gather enough evidence to eventually make the arrest.
The FBI tapped 7 phones and intercepted over 15k calls. It would be interesting to know whether these taps were able to be made because of the Patriot Act.
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