An assault-style rifle, more than a thousand rounds of ammunition and a pound of methamphetamine were allegedly seized from the home of a Sevier County, Ark., man last week.
Yeyserh Navarette-Martinez, 27, is the only defendant listed in a federal criminal complaint unsealed last week in the Texarkana Division of the Western District of Arkansas. The complaint alleges that guns, weapons, ammunition and drugs were discovered during a search March 6 of Navarette-Martinez's home in Horatio, Ark.
Navarette-Martinez allegedly has a 2014 conviction for misdemeanor domestic violence which makes it illegal for him to purchase guns and ammunition, according to a federal complaint unsealed March 15 and used to create the following account.
Investigators with the Department of Homeland Security determined that Navarette-Martinez allegedly ordered five magazines for such a rifle on May 11, 2016, from Sportsman's Guide. The same day, the complaint alleges Navarette-Martinez ordered five magazines from Raleigh Tactical Supply. The complaint alleges Navarette-Martinez ordered 1,000 rounds of ammunition March 6, 2017.
Earlier this month, federal agents searched Navarette-Martinez's home. They allegedly discovered more than 1,000 rounds of rifle ammunition, multiple rifle magazines, a Glock pistol, 276 rounds of 9 millimeter ammunition, an assault-style rifle, a large amount of methamphetamine and some cocaine.
Navarette-Martinez allegedly tried to destroy a cellphone and tried to flush a pound of methamphetamine when agents entered his house.
Navarette-Martinez allegedly confessed that he had purchased a kilogram of meth and some cocaine from a supplier in Dallas the week before. Navarette-Martinez allegedly told agents that he had already sold one pound and one ounce of the meth. He allegedly admitted to purchasing 9 mm ammunition the day before the search of his home from Academy Sports in Texarkana, Texas.
Navarette-Martinez appeared March 15 for an initial court appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Bryant in Texarkana's downtown federal building. With the help of Texarkana lawyer Jeff Harrelson, Navarette-Martinez waived the issue of detention and remains in jail. The next step in the case will be for prosecutors to present the case to a federal grand jury for possible indictment.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Graham Jones is handling the case for the government.