A 36-year-old T&T national has been sentenced to four years and nine months in a US federal prison for weapons charges.
Shem Wayne Alexander previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to smuggle firearms from the US to T&T.
According to the plea agreement and court records, between April 2019 and April 2022, Alexander and his co-conspirators unlawfully exported firearms, firearms components, and related items from Florida to T&T.
In total, more than 200 firearms were smuggled.
On April 21st 2021, members of the TTPS and Customs and Excise Division seized a shipment at the Piarco International Airport containing two punching bags.
In the bags were approximately eleven 9mm pistols, two .38 caliber special revolvers, a 12-gauge semi-automatic shotgun, three AR-15 barrel foregrips, 19 lower pistol grip assemblies, 11 forearm bolt assemblies, three AR-15-style barrels with forearm grips, 32 AR-15 magazines, one AR-15 drum magazine, 470 rounds of AR-15 ammunition, 34 9mm magazines, three 9mm drum magazines, 284 9mm rounds, fifteen .38 caliber rounds, 36 shells, six magazine couplers, and two shotgun chokes.
