{"id":69576,"date":"2016-01-27T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=69576"},"modified":"2016-01-27T00:00:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T05:00:15","slug":"mother-son-charged-with-smuggling-gun-parts-to-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/01\/27\/mother-son-charged-with-smuggling-gun-parts-to-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother, son charged with smuggling gun parts to Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65578\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65578\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled design\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014A Southern California woman and her son have been charged with smuggling an arsenal of ammunition and gun parts to the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors say 60-year-old Marlou Mendoza of Long Beach, California, and her son were indicted last month. She was arrested last week at Los Angeles International Airport after returning from her native Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>She pleaded not guilty last week and is free while awaiting trial.<\/p>\n<p>Her son, 30-year-old Mark Mendoza, is a fugitive and is believed to be in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say he ran a business called Last Resort Armaments.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say that in 2011 the pair tried to smuggle hundreds of thousands of ammunition rounds and parts for assault rifles to the Philippines, labelling the shipments as household goods.<\/p>\n<p>They were intercepted by U.S. and Philippine authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014A Southern California woman and her son have been charged with smuggling an arsenal of ammunition and gun parts &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":65578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-69576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-original","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}