(The Center Square) – Five New England residents have pleaded guilty in another gun smuggling operation foiled at the northern border using an Indian reservation as a thoroughfare.
Another eight were charged with being involved in an international firearms trafficking conspiracy to funnel illegally obtained weapons from New Hampshire through the Akwesasne Mohawk Indian Reservation in upstate New York.
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