Police and IDF soldiers catch a Palestinian firearms smuggler in the act, the Israel Police says.
Acting on intelligence information, IDF troops and Northern District Police officers arrived at the border fence with Jordan on the northern end of the Jordan Valley.
They observed as a pickup truck arrived at the scene and the driver, a 29-year-old East Jerusalem resident, loaded a large sack, apparently thrown over the fence earlier, into his truck. The suspect then drove southward on Route 90, the north-south road along the Jordanian border that meets Route 1 toward Jerusalem just north of the Dead Sea.
During the drive, police cruisers intercepted the pickup and searched the vehicle.
They found 11 shotguns and an M16 assault rifle.
The driver and a 17-year-old girl were both arrested and taken for questioning.
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