GROUP ACCUSED OF SMUGGLING ARMS TO GUATEMALAN GUERRILLAS
Four Guatemalans and Six Mexicans are under arrest in Mexico City, according to the September 27 Ultimas Noticias, on charges of. running arms for the purpose of overthrowing the Guatemalan government.
The smuggled arms were made in the U. S. "Czechoslovakia ‘and Mexico, it was alleged. LG :
‘according to. the Mexican: police, the head of the group was Victor Hugo Martinez Pantaleon. He had been "commissioned by the guerrillas" in Guatemala and when arrested was carrying US#4, 040.
Martinez was captured in the railway station after leaving a shipment there that contained a number of machineguns and 9,000 cartridges.
After arresting Martinez, the police picked up three other Guatemalans: Amado Dominguez Flores, Odilia Martinez Mena de Gonzalez and.Maria Iuisa Robles Secaira.
The six Mexicans were Leopoldo Constantino Pérez, Juan Constantino Pérez, Eduardo Zepeda Regalado, Oscar Julio Orduna Sancho, Raul Rodriguez Nava and Rafael Soriano Mayoral.
The police said that others were involved and that a search is being made for them.
As is customary in the Mexican press, which generally acts. like a house organ for the government and the police department, no statements by the defendants were published.
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