Feds: Smuggled Marysville guns were part of Nazi terror plot

TULALIP — As far as gun smuggling operations go, the one based in Tulalip was not the world’s most sophisticated.

“Used becycle part,” read a postal declaration for one box, shipped from a post office in Marysville.

Yet the damage could have been catastrophic.

After shipping the boxes, the smuggler learned the guns were going to a “Neo Nazi group” and a terrorist group that was “likely to commit violent crimes against refugees in Sweden,” according to the man’s statements, as recounted in a sentencing memorandum filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle.

The sender had given the names Edward Valentine, Edward Tucker, Edward Becker, David Becker. The Everett return address for Mr. Becker does not exist. In the case that eventually tipped off authorities in 2017, the box had supposedly been sent by Ben Manacker.

In reality, his name was Hany Veletanlic, 36, a Bosnian immigrant living in Tulalip. U.S. District Court Judge James Robart sentenced him Monday to seven years and one month behind bars, after he was found guilty of violating the Arms Export Control Act, illegally possessing two unregistered silencers and a firearm with an obliterated serial number.

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