Jury: Mexican national guilty of $4.7 million meth, heroin conspiracy in KC
KANSAS CITY – A Mexican national who worked with a drug-trafficking organization tied to the Cárteles Unidos cartel in Michoacán, Mexico, was convicted by a federal trial jury last week for his role in a $4.7 million conspiracy to distribute more than 335 kilograms of methamphetamine and 22 kilograms of heroin in the Kansas City metropolitan area and throughout the United States, according to the United State's Attorney.
Call for surrender of blank firing guns after tests find them easily convertible
Owners of particular types of blank firing guns, which have become popular with criminals, have been urged to hand the firearms in to police stations after tests found they can be easily converted to fire live ammunition.The National Crime Agency (NCA) highlighted four brands of blank firing guns, originally designed to fire blank ammunition without a bullet or projectile component, which are “readily convertible” and therefore illegal under the Firearms Act 1982.The specified brands are the Turkish models of top-venting blank firers (TVBFs) Retay, Ekol, Ceonic ISSC and Blow, and the NCA said they were used in at least...