Rhode Island Man Pleads Guilty in Scheme to Export Ghost Guns

Rhode Island resident Robert Alcantara pleaded guilty to conspiring to traffic in firearms after planning to sell more than 100 “ghost guns” to people in the Dominican Republic, DOJ announced this month. DOJ said Alcantara used his home as a factory to turn gun kits into ghost guns, which have no serial numbers and are untraceable. Alcantara received payments for some gun exports to the Dominican Republic and laundered those funds. He faces a maximum five-year prison sentence for conspiring to traffic firearms and a maximum 20-year sentence for conspiring to launder money.