Man who tried to sell guns, explosives indicted
An former officer in El Salvador’s army has been indicted in U.S. federal court in Alexandria for selling plastic explosives, an AK-47 automatic rifle, and other explosives to people he thought were members of a radical Colombian paramilitary group.
Hector Antonio Guillen-Martinez, 32, aka “el Capitan,” has been in custody since he was arrested in November at Washington Dulles International Airport on drug charges. The charges were part of a yearlong federal sting.
Guillen-Martinez thought he was selling the arms to members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. The U.S. considers FARC a terrorist group.
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