TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A former Hillsborough County high school teacher had pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide firearms to a transnational criminal organization, U.S. Attorney Greg Kehoe’s office announced.
Shannon Samlalsingh, 46, made false statements to firearms dealers in Hillsborough and Miami-Dade Counties in 2020 and 2021 while purchasing weapons and firearms components, the press release said.
The woman stated she was buying the weapons herself, but had actually been paid to purchase and transfer them to members of a criminal organization from Trinidad and Tobago who were already in Florida. From there, the weapons would be smuggled to Trinidad…