{"id":681511,"date":"2026-03-25T20:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/681511\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T20:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:28:12","slug":"southern-arizona-man-accused-of-providing-support-to-mexican-cartels-usao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/681511\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Arizona man accused of providing support to Mexican cartels: USAO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\"><strong>PHOENIX<\/strong> &#8211; Federal prosecutors say the owner of federally licensed firearms dealer in Arizona has been indicted on charges related to providing material support to designated foreign terrorist associations.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Per a statement released on March 25, 65-year-old Laurence Gray of <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/eFP2h4viEadma5Xf6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hareford<\/a> was indicted by a federal grand jury on March 17 on charges related to providing material support to two Mexican cartels that were designated in 2025 as foreign terrorist organizations.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">&#8220;Gray was arraigned on the indictment in federal court [on March 25],&#8221; read a portion of the statement.<\/p>\n<p>  Where Hareford is located  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Officials with the United States Attorney&#8217;s Office wrote that Gray, who is the owner of Grips by Larry, was &#8220;previously indicted for firearms trafficking offenses in 2025&#8221; alongside a 73-year-old Tucson man.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">&#8220;The original charges against both men included trafficking in firearms, aiding and abetting the straw purchasing of firearms, and aiding and abetting material false statements during the purchase of a firearm,&#8221; read a portion of the statement. &#8220;In addition to more firearms charges, last week\u2019s superseding indictment added material support to terrorism charges against Gray.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KSAZ\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Prosecutors said the indictment alleged that Gray knowingly tried to provide firearms to Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG) and Cartel de Sinaloa (CDS) in 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">&#8220;Both cartels were designated by the U.S. Secretary of State as foreign terrorist organizations pursuant to Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act on Feb. 20, 2025,&#8221; read a portion of the statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information for this article was gathered from a statement released by the United States Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\/terrorism\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terrorism<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/us\/az\/cochise-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cochise County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8211; Federal prosecutors say the owner of federally licensed firearms dealer in Arizona has been indicted on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":681512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,35361,6082,50,1589,5343,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-681511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-cochise-county","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-phoenix","tag-terrorism","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116291705806667122","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}