{"id":63916,"date":"2016-01-19T10:25:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T15:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63916"},"modified":"2016-01-19T10:25:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T15:25:55","slug":"california-guardsmen-plead-guilty-to-trafficking-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63916","title":{"rendered":"California Guardsmen plead guilty to trafficking weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/2016\/jan\/14\/reyes-casillas-national-guard-gun-guilty\/\">San Diego Tribune<\/a> reports that California National Guardsmen Staff Sergeant Andrew Reyes, 33, and Specialist Jaime Casillas, 23, pleaded guilty to selling non-military firearms to federal agents;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Authorities said they were also accused of selling military equipment from the California National Guard, including gun magazines, ammunition, ballistic vests and the ceramic shields that go inside the vests.<\/p>\n<p>Casillas was accused of boasting to the undercover agent that he could procure such items, and the investigation began. The transactions totaled some $15,000, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the transactions that the men admitted in San Diego court Thursday included the sale of a $1,700 AK-47, a $2,150 AR-15, a .40-caliber pistol and four high capacity .223 magazines, according to the plea agreement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the article, the pair bought the firearms in Texas and then transported them to California. They thought they were selling the firearms to to members of a drug cartel. I guess they aspired to be BATFE agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Diego Tribune reports that California National Guardsmen Staff Sergeant Andrew Reyes, 33, and Specialist &hellip; <a title=\"California Guardsmen plead guilty to trafficking weapons\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63916\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">California Guardsmen plead guilty to trafficking weapons<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}