New Jersey Man Planned to Illegally Export Weapons, Ammunition
A New Jersey man was sentenced to 46 months in prison after he planned to illegally export firearms and ammunition to Paraguay, the Department of Justice said in an April 18 press release. Pedro Vergara bought at least 13 guns…
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and thousands of rounds of ammunition between May 2017 and November 2017, according to the release, and planned to sell them on the black market. Vergara hid the guns in shipping boxes and transported them from New Jersey to a shipping company in New York, the DOJ said, where he planned to smuggle them into Paraguay. Vergara also removed the serial numbers from at least 10 of the guns to conceal “ownership interest,” the release said. In addition to the prison sentence, Vergara was also sentenced to two years of supervised release and fined $10,000.