{"id":1398651,"date":"2025-03-20T03:20:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T08:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1398651"},"modified":"2025-03-23T06:22:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T11:22:24","slug":"illegal-immigrant-pleads-guilty-to-immigration-firearms-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1398651","title":{"rendered":"Illegal immigrant pleads guilty to immigration, firearms violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/03\/2025-03-20_031942-201x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1398652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/03\/2025-03-20_031942-201x200.jpg 201w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/03\/2025-03-20_031942-352x350.jpg 352w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/03\/2025-03-20_031942.jpg 361w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>NACOGDOCHES \u2014 According to our news partner KETK, a Mexican man, residing in Nacogdoches, pleaded guilty to federal immigration and firearms violations on Tuesday. 25-year-old Joel Bustamante Moreno was detained for selling multiple firearms, including a 9mm pistol equipped with a Glock switch, a device that once fixed to a pistol can make it capable of firing automatically. Officials said Moreno fled the scene when officers attempted to arrest him, wrecked a vehicle and ran to a residence where he was later arrested. Moreno has previously been deported in 2019 and 2020. <\/p>\n<p>He faces up to 10 years in federal prison at sentencing.  A sentencing hearing will be scheduled after the completion of a presentence investigation by the U.S. Probation Office. <\/p>\n<p>Moreno\u2019s case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program combining all levels of law enforcement and the communities to keep neighborhoods safer. Several parties are part of the investigation including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Homeland Security Investigations and the Nacogdoches Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NACOGDOCHES \u2014 According to our news partner KETK, a Mexican man, residing in Nacogdoches, pleaded guilty to federal immigration and firearms violations on Tuesday. 25-year-old Joel Bustamante Moreno was detained for selling multiple firearms, including a 9mm pistol equipped with a Glock switch, a device that once fixed to a pistol can make it capable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1398651\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Illegal immigrant pleads guilty to immigration, firearms violation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1398653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/03\/2025-03-20_031942-201x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 04:44:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/03\/2025-03-20_031942-201x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1398651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398655,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398651\/revisions\/1398655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1398653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1398651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1398651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1398651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}