Georgia Federal Court Sentences UK Citizen in Illegal Firearm Exports Case
Jahziah Roy Lewis, a United Kingdom citizen, was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison for exporting firearms outside the U.S. and for conspiring to straw purchase firearms, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia…
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said Sept. 20. Lewis and two accomplices were charged as part of an international weapons trafficking conspiracy to buy and ship around 36 firearms from the U.S. to the U.K. and the Caribbean through the U.S. Postal Service, the Department of Justice said. All three co-conspirators claimed to be the actual buyers of the firearms when in fact the actual recipient was someone else. The guns were shipped abroad concealed in household items and using false names on shipping labels, the U.S. attorney said. Many of the guns, bought in Georgia, were recovered in the U.K. and in St. Kitts, having been tied to various criminal networks abroad.