TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) – A former Hillsborough County high school teacher has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for helping to smuggle guns into Trinidad.
Shannon Nicole Samlalsingh, 47, pleaded guilty in June to charges of conspiracy to make false statements to a firearms dealer.
According to court documents, Samlalsingh bought seven firearms for a Trinidad-based criminal organization. Samlalsingh falsely stated on Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives forms that those firearms were for her…