Utah woman sentenced to prison for selling weapons to Mexican drug cartel
By: KSTU Staff
and last updated 2021-05-19 11:23:30-04
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah â A Utah woman is heading to federal prison for buying dozens of high-powered rifles for Mexican drug cartel members.
It all started in 2017, when Norma Llamas Rodriguez, 47, began buying more and more guns with increased caliber, but she escaped detection because she did not have a criminal record.
Some of the assault rifles were seized at the U.S. border heading into Mexico, with a least one, a semi-automatic that was converted into a machine gun, discovered last April following a gun battle in Jalisco, Mexico, between cartel members and police.
Woman âforcibly takenâ from Kearns home was shot to death, police say
Two men accused in the slaying of Conzuelo âNicoleâ Solorio-Romero have been arrested. Her body has not been found.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera gives a statement about the Conzuelo Nicole Solorio-Romero kidnapping case at the Salt Lake County Sheriff s office on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. | Updated: Feb. 17, 2021, 1:47 a.m.
Police say a Kearns woman who was abducted from her home Feb. 6 was killed and the two men accused in the slaying are in custody.
According to Unified Police, Conzuelo âNicoleâ Solorio-Romero, 25, was âforcibly takenâ from her home in the area of 5000 West and 5400 South by two men. They were later identified by police as Orlando Esiesa Tobar, 29, and Jorge Rafael Medina Reyes, 21.
Police offer $5,000 reward for information about the killing of SLC woman in 2018
Wanyun Judd was asleep in her bed when she was shot to death.
(Photo courtesy of Salt Lake City Police Department) Wanyun Judd was killed Sept. 28, 2018, by an unknown shooter at her home at 54 E. Harrison Ave.
| Feb. 9, 2021, 11:27 p.m.
Salt Lake City police are offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information about the 2018 murder of Wanyun Judd.
The 47-year-old woman was asleep in her home at 54 E. Harrison Ave. at 6:24 a.m. on Sept. 28, 2018, when she was struck and killed by an “errant” bullet fired in a drive-by shooting. At the time, police said they believe Wanyun was “incorrectly targeted,” and the shooter has never been found.