NASCAR Cup Series driver Kyle Busch (8) speaks to reporters ahead of
practice sessions before a NASCAR exhibition auto race at Los Angeles
Memorial Coliseum, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023, in Los Angeles.
Famed NASCAR driver Kyle Busch has been sentenced to three-and-half-years
in prison for gun possession without a license in Mexico, authorities
there said late last week.
It is not clear how, or if, that sentence will be assessed.
According to a press release by Mexico’s Attorney General of the Republic
office, a man visiting Quintana Roo, Cancún, was arrested by the National
Guard when leaving the country on Jan. 27, after security personnel at the
private FBO terminal in Cancún International Airport signaled that
something was amiss with Busch’s baggage.
Mexican authorities identified the defendant as “Kyle Thomas B” from
Nevada and said he was “credited with full responsibility in the
commission of the crime of carrying a firearm without a license and
possession of cartridges for the exclusive use of the armed forces.”
Busch addressed the issue in a statement on Twitter.
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