{"id":5714,"date":"2026-10-07T09:26:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/20-charged-in-massive-georgia-gun-trafficking-case\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T09:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:26:28","slug":"20-charged-in-massive-georgia-gun-trafficking-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/07\/20-charged-in-massive-georgia-gun-trafficking-case\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Charged in Massive Georgia Gun Trafficking Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F5bNUk9n-t4w%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nearly 1,500 guns seized, 20 people charged in major gang trafficking case\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5bNUk9n-t4w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> ATLANTA, GA \u2013 October 7, 2026 (STL.News) Twenty people have been indicted on federal firearms and drug charges following a sweeping Georgia investigation involving three alleged shipping-facility burglaries in which 1,486 firearms were stolen, undercover purchases of allegedly stolen guns and searches that produced large quantities of illegal drugs, according to federal authorities. A federal grand jury returned six separate indictments on Sept. 23, according to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Northern District of Georgia. The defendants face varying charges that include firearms trafficking, conspiracy to traffic firearms, theft of interstate shipments, conspiracy to possess controlled substances<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/20-charged-in-massive-georgia-gun-trafficking-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA, GA \u2013 October 7, 2026 (STL.News) Twenty people have been indicted on federal firearms and drug charges following a sweeping Georgia investigation involving three alleged shipping-facility burglaries in which 1,486 firearms were stolen, undercover purchases of allegedly stolen guns&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5716,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions\/5716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}