SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 U.S. authorities say they’ve traced an assault rifle recovered during the July arrest of a Mexican drug cartel leader to an unlicensed Texas gun dealer. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives special agent Christopher Benavides testified that Manuel Rodriguez, of Big Spring, apparently sold the gun. He says he had no evidence that Rodriguez knew any of his guns were going to the Zetas cartel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SAN ANTONIO (AP) \u2014 U.S. authorities say they’ve traced an assault rifle recovered during the July arrest of a Mexican drug cartel leader to an unlicensed Texas gun dealer. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives special agent Christopher Benavides testified that Manuel Rodriguez, of Big Spring, apparently sold the gun. He says he had … Continue reading Gun from Zeta Leader’s Arrest Traced to Texas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-08 14:20:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276505","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276530,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276505\/revisions\/276530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}