A Dominican nationwide is amongst two males charged with offences stemming from the unlawful trafficking and export of firearms and firearm elements from america to the Caribbean island.
A federal grand jury in New Haven has returned a nine-count indictment charging 29-year-old Davidson Alexander, also referred to as Harley, the Dominican nationwide, residing in Suffolk, Virginia, and Neilcon St Louis, 39, of Waterbury, Connecticut, with the offences.
The indictment was returned on September 5 and unsealed this week after St. Louis and Alexander have been arrested.
The indictment alleges that from not less than January 2021 by means of September 2024, St Louis, Alexander, and others, together with a resident of Dominica, conspired to interact within the enterprise of dealing firearms with out a licence, and to export firearms, firearm elements, and ammunition from the US to Dominica with out authorisation from the US Division of Commerce, in violation of the Export Management Reform Act.
St Louis, Alexander, and the Dominica resident bought quite a few firearm elements from sellers on eBay, which have been then mailed to their kin and acquaintances within the US.
St Louis and Alexander obtained the bought firearm elements after which smuggled them, by mailing, or by directing the mailing of, parcels containing them, in addition to firearms and ammunition, on to co-conspirators in Dominica, or to a Miami-based freight forwarding firm that then shipped the parcels to co-conspirators in Dominica.
The indictment prices St Louis and Alexander with one depend of conspiracy, an offence that carries a most time period of imprisonment of 5 years, and one depend of conspiracy to violate the Export Management Reform Act, an offence that carries a most time period of imprisonment of 20 years.
The indictment additionally prices St Louis with 5 counts and Alexander with 4 counts of violating the Export Management Reform Act, an offence that carries a most time period of imprisonment of 20 years on every depend, and St Louis with two counts and Alexander with one depend of smuggling items from the US, and offence that carries a most time period of imprisonment of 10 years on every depend.
Following their arrests, St Louis and Alexander appeared in New Haven and Norfolk, Virginia, respectively, and have been launched pending trial.
US Legal professional Vanessa Roberts Avery stated that an indictment is simply a cost and isn’t proof of guilt.
Fees are solely allegations and every defendant is presumed harmless except and till confirmed responsible past an affordable doubt.
