Texas woman allegedly busted at US-Mexico border with 44 rifles, disassembled machine gun in trampoline box

Federal authorities have arrested an American woman accused of trying to smuggle a shipment of dozens of rifles in packaged in trampoline packaging into Mexico earlier this week.

Padron allegedly told Homeland Security Investigations agents that someone paid her $200 to drive the Silverado from Houston to Mexico, that she’d made similar runs in the past and that she intended to open a cross-border shipping business. Mayra Alejandra Padron, a 21-year-old from Houston, was arrested Monday at the Hidalgo port of entry – allegedly carrying 44 rifles, a single handgun, a dissembled M249 machine gun and almost 3,000 rounds of ammunition in the back of a gray Chevy pickup truck. (Homeland Security Investigations) Padron allegedly told HSI agents that someone paid her $200 to drive the Silverado from Houston to Mexico, that she’d made similar runs in the past and that she intended to open a cross-border shipping business. (Homeland Security Investigations) Padron has a criminal record dating back to when she was just a kid – with a conviction for failure to identify or giving false information when she was 11 and for assaulting a public servant when she was 12, court documents show. (Homeland Security Investigations) Mayra Padron criminal complaint by Fox News on Scribd