COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A Columbus man who led a large-scale gun trafficking operation was sentenced to six years in prison on Monday.
Keith Davenport III, 22, pleaded guilty in April to aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
In 2022, Davenport and five others used stolen credit card information to place orders online for firearms, then sold them on the black market, according to a news release from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
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Court documents allege that after the group ordered the firearms, they had the guns transferred to federally authorized sellers. Davenport or one of his co-conspirators would then pick up the weapons and put false information on the federal firearms forms…