OK---so, the weapons cargo in the truck that Javin Bogan was driving was
documented in the paperwork and not hidden, but packed normally on pallets
in the cargo compartment of the truck. It is now established in the Mexican
court that the Mexican officials lied.  Also note that Bogan is still held
in a maximum security prison in Veracruz state--currently one of the most
dangerous places in Mexico.  molly

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/mexican-customs-agent-says-tex...

Mexican customs agent says Texas trucker nabbed at border with bullets
tried to return to USBy Associated Press, Published: June 19

EL PASO, Texas — A Texas truck driver arrested with ammunition at the
Mexican border was trying to make an unauthorized U-turn when a Mexican
customs agent ordered him to enter an inspection area, the agent told a
judge in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Javin Bogan was arrested April 17 when he tried to enter Mexico carrying
268,000 rounds of ammunition. He that he took a wrong turn on his way to a
West El Paso medical supplies company. Mexican prosecutors allege he tried
to clandestinely smuggle bullets commonly used by drug cartels.

Truckers entering Mexico from El Paso at the Bridge of the Americas are
supposed to use a specially designated lane that leads to an inspection
area. Bogan was in the lanes for passenger cars, according to Mexican
customs agent America Zubia Saenz.

“I saw a vehicle blocking the lanes for the tourist vehicles, an area not
authorized for cargo vehicles,” Saenz said in a May 29 deposition before a
judge in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua.

She ordered Bogan to drive his truck into the “yellow zone” where trucks
are inspected. He produced documents for the truck and the cargo at her
request, she said.

Two other customs agents, Federico Anaya and Adriana Ramirez, told the
judge the bullets were loaded in boxes on several pallets inside the
trailer. They said that while the bullets were wrapped in plastic, they
were easy to spot once inside the trailer.

After Bogan’s arrest, Mexican prosecutors initially said in a news release
that the ammunition was stashed under the floorboards of the trailer.

Jose De La Rosa, Bogan’s lawyer in Mexico, said that by showing the bullets
were not hidden and that his client had all the corresponding paperwork,
his hopes to persuade the judge to throw out the charge of clandestine
smuggling of military ammunition. It carries a possible prison term of five
to 30 years.

Instead, De La Rosa said, he would settle for a charge of possession of
ammunition. That carries a possible prison sentence of two to six years but
could easily be converted into a fine because Bogan has no prison record,
De La Rosa said.

Bogan remains in a maximum security prison in the state of Veracruz, some
200 miles east of Mexico City.

De La Rosa said he wants Bogan transferred to Ciudad Jaurez, where all of
the judicial proceedings in his case will be carried out.

Mexican political leaders have blamed their U.S. counterparts for not doing
enough to stem the flow of weapons and ammunition used by warring drug
cartels. In February, Mexico’s president Felipe Calderon travelled to
Ciudad Juarez and unveiled a billboard made out of destroyed guns that read
“No More Weapons.” The billboard is at the Bridge of the Americas and is
intended to be seen from the U.S. side.

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