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The notorious Jalisco New Generation Cartel gave gun runners from California and Nevada hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from selling illicit drugs in the U.S. to buy and ship ammunition and firearms, including assault rifles, south to Mexico, federal prosecutors said. Prosecutors in the Southern District of California accused the alleged ringleader, Marco Antonio Santillan Valencia, of Whittier, California, and five accomplices last month of laundering money and violating U.S. restrictions on the export of weapons to certain foreign jurisdictions. Santillan and his purported co-conspirators, including Anthony Marmolejo Aguilar, also of Whittier, typically received bulk cash from representatives...