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Shem Wayne Alexan­der, a 36-year-old na­tion­al of Trinidad and To­ba­go who was ex­tra­dit­ed from Ja­maica, has been sen­tenced to four years and nine months in a Unit­ed States fed­er­al prison for con­spir­ing to smug­gle more than 200 firearms from the U.S. to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The sen­tence was im­posed by U.S. Dis­trict Judge John L. Badala­men­ti in the Mid­dle Dis­trict of Flori­da. The court al­so or­dered Alexan­der to for­feit firearms seized dur­ing the of­fence. He had pre­vi­ous­ly plead­ed guilty.

Ac­cord­ing to the Unit­ed States De­part­ment of Jus­tice, be­tween April 2019 and April 2022, Alexan­der and his co-con­spir­a­tors un­law­ful­ly ex­port­ed firearms, firearm com­po­nents, in­clud­ing up­per and low­er re­ceivers and gun parts kits, and re­lat­ed items from Flori­da to Trinidad and To­ba­go.