PHOENIX (AZFamily) — An Arizona grand jury has indicted 20 individuals in connection with what prosecutors call a large-scale firearms trafficking conspiracy that supplied weapons to drug cartels in Mexico.

According to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, the nearly two dozen people named in the indictment reportedly conspired to obtain guns and rifles from the U.S. to export across the southern border between May 2024 and February 2025.

In addition, authorities alleged that those defendants gave money to purchase the firearms and compensated straw purchasers who forged ATF forms to conceal the actual buyers.

Prosecutors said the group obtained about 334 firearms during the nine-month period, many of which federal officials said have been recovered in Mexico.

Many of those indicted

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