Man Sentenced to 3 Yrs for Illegally Exporting Controlled Military Items
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has announced that Andrew O'Donnell has been sentenced to serve three years in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a fine of $2,500 for illegally selling through an eBay online store…
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export-controlled military items, in violation of the Arms Export Control Act. Between January 2008 and January 2009, O'Donnell sold more than 50 export-controlled EOTech Holographic Weapon Sights to a customer in Hong Kong without the required export license. He devised a scheme to export the items by falsely marking the shipment as "toys." He also sold VLTOR Upper Receivers, a gun part used in assembling a certain rifle, to a customer in Japan. He arranged to have the items shipped out of the country through a third party in order to make the sale appear legitimate and to further conceal his illegal export activities.