A high school teacher in Florida has pleaded guilty in a case involving gun smuggling to Trinidad and Tobago.
46-year-old Shannon Samlalsingh made false statements to firearms dealers in Hillsborough and Miami-Dade in 2020 and 2021 while purchasing weapons and firearms components.
She said she was buying the weapons herself, but instead transferred them to members of a criminal organization from Trinidad and Tobago who were already in Florida.
The weapons were then smuggled to Trinidad, with Samlalsingh keeping a percentage of the money as compensation for her part in the operation.
A cache of weapons was discovered when authorities in Trinidad seized a large wireless speaker and two punching bags.
Samlalsingh has pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide firearms to a transnational criminal organization and faces up to five years in federal prison.
