US border town officials face gun-running charges

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The police chief, the mayor and a local politician of a small town on the American side of the US-Mexico border have been charged with gun running.

Prosecutors say the officials from Columbus, New Mexico, bought some 200 guns which they allegedly planned to sell to drug cartels in Mexico.

The officials were arrested along with eight other locals on Thursday morning.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has urged the US to do more to stem the flow of illegal weapons to his country.