A 36-year-old American man has been sentenced to greater than 5 years in jail for allegedly trafficking over 100 untraceable “ghost weapons” to the Dominican Republic, the USA legal professional for the Southern District of New York has mentioned.
Legal professional Damian Williams, the son of a Jamaican-born doctor, mentioned that Robert Alcantara was sentenced by US District Choose Vernon S Broderick after he pleaded responsible to conspiring to site visitors firearms and conspiring to launder cash.
“Robert Alcantara alone trafficked over 100 untraceable ghost weapons to the Dominican Republic. The proliferation of illegal ghost weapons is a risk to public security, and our response is obvious: we won’t let up,” mentioned Williams.
In keeping with the charging paperwork and different filings and statements made in court docket, Alcantara from 2017 till January 2022 operated a “ghost gun” manufacturing facility out of his dwelling in Rhode Island.
The indictment states Alcantara bought ghost gun kits at gun exhibits and different locations, after which “machined the kits into working firearms.
“As soon as he had accomplished the untraceable firearms, he exported and bought them to the Dominican Republic. Most of these weapons have been handguns, however a quantity have been rifles,” in response to the indictment, noting that Alcantara and others then laundered the proceeds of his gun gross sales.
The indictment additional states that, on November 20, 2021, “Alcantara was stopped in his automobile in possession of kits to construct roughly 45 ghost weapons.
“Alcantara was interviewed by regulation enforcement brokers and acknowledged that he was planning to show the 45 kits into working firearms, and he had 50 further related ghost weapons at his dwelling.”
Along with the jail time period, Williams mentioned Alcantara was sentenced to 3 years of supervised launch.
Williams praised the “excellent investigative work” of the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and the US Division of Commerce’s Workplace of Export Enforcement, New York Subject Workplace in addition to different US regulation enforcement businesses for his or her help within the case.
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