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A for­mer Flori­da high school teacher, who plead­ed guilty last year to pur­chas­ing firearms for a Trinidad-based crim­i­nal or­gan­i­sa­tion, has now been sen­tenced to prison in the Unit­ed States.

Ac­cord­ing to the U.S. De­part­ment of Jus­tice, 47-year-old Shan­non Nicole Sam­lals­ingh of Tem­ple Ter­race was sen­tenced to one year and one day in fed­er­al prison for con­spir­a­cy to make false state­ments to a firearms deal­er.

Sam­lals­ingh plead­ed guilty in June 2025.