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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.
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