Two Plead Guilty to Illegally Exporting Guns to Barbados
Rashad Sargeant, resident of College Park, Georgia, and David Johnson of Belleville, Illinois, pleaded guilty on Sept. 2 to illegally exporting firearms to Barbados, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia said. The pair sent at least 30…
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guns to Barbados after destroying the firearms' serial numbers and packing them in false compartments in boxes, the U.S. Attorney said. According to court documents, Johnson recruited Shunquez Stephens and others to buy the guns from federally licensed dealers and make false statements to the dealers by pledging that they were being bought for themselves. Sargeant and Johnson then mailed the guns to Barbados through carriers such as UPS, FedEx and DHL, using fake identifications, the release said.