United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Jorge Giovanny Gonzalez-Lopez (42, Colombia) has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to smuggle firearms from the United States to Colombia.
Gonzalez-Lopez faces a maximum term of five years in federal prison and three years of supervised release.
However, he is expected to be removed from the United States at the completion of his prison sentence.
Gonzalez-Lopez was extradited from Colombia to the United States in February 2024, and he has been in custody since that time. His sentencing hearing is expected to be set in the next 90 days.
According to court documents, Gonzalez-Lopez is a citizen of Colombia who travelled to Florida in late 2017 and again in early 2018 and, aided and abetted by others, acquired firearms, including several types of assault rifles, then illegally exported them from Clearwater, Tampa and Kissimmee, Florida, to Colombia.
Gonzalez-Lopez and his co-conspirators attempted to obliterate the serial numbers on some of the firearms so that they could not be traced. Neither Gonzalez-Lopez nor his co-conspirators applied for or obtained the necessary licenses for exporting defence articles as required by federal law.
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