Laredo police made an arrest Thursday after finding more than a thousand bottles of tequila that had been reported stolen last month.

Officers found the Patrón tequila, valued at more than $24,500, after a man started advertising massive sales on social-media pages, police said in a Facebook post.

They tracked the sales to a Laredo home, where they found numerous cases of tequila, as well as a loaded .357-caliber Taurus revolver.

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Authorities arrested Manuel Alejandro Martinez Fernandez on a federal charge of being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm.

Charges for the tequila theft are pending, police said.