Man pleads guilty to traveling with gun parts in plastic wrap, bed sheets at CLT airport

A man who tried smuggling gun parts through Charlotte Douglas International Airport to Ecuador pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday.

Galo Dario Rojas-Noblecilla was charged on March 11 with fraudulently attempting to export firearms from the United States, a felony. Details of his plea agreement were unavailable Thursday afternoon.

He was arrested while attempting to conceal a “fully functional” FN 5.7mm lower receiver, two upper slides and an empty magazine in two camouflaged-style duffle bags he checked at the Charlotte airport, court records said. The flight transferred in Miami before continuing to Guayaquil, Ecuador…

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