A 36-year-old Trinidad and Tobago nationwide has been sentenced in the USA after being extradited from Jamaica in reference to a large-scale firearms trafficking operation.
Shem Wayne Alexander of Port of Spain obtained a sentence of 4 years and 9 months in federal jail final Friday. The ruling was handed down by a U.S. District Decide within the Center District of Florida following his conviction for conspiracy to smuggle firearms from the USA to Trinidad and Tobago. The courtroom additionally ordered the forfeiture of weapons seized in the course of the investigation.
Alexander was taken into custody in Kingston in November 2024 whereas visiting his girlfriend. He was extradited to the USA the next month and later entered a responsible plea in August 2025.
On the time of his arrest, Alexander held a number of skilled roles, together with managing director of an athletics firm, head coach of a Trinidad and Tobago Premier League soccer membership, and coach of an under-14 crew.
Courtroom paperwork outlined that between April 2019 and April 2022, Alexander and his associates unlawfully exported greater than 200 firearms and associated elements from Florida to Trinidad and Tobago. The shipments reportedly included higher and decrease receivers, gun elements kits, and numerous firearm elements.
A major seizure linked to the case occurred on April 21, 2021, at Piarco Worldwide Airport in Port of Spain. Officers from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service and the Customs and Excise Division intercepted a cargo declared as family items. Hid inside two punching baggage had been a number of firearms, together with 11 nine-millimetre pistols, two .38 calibre revolvers, a 12-gauge semi-automatic shotgun, AR-15-style barrels and foregrips, dozens of magazines, a whole bunch of rounds of ammunition, and different equipment.
Investigators said that the cargo had been organized with out correct disclosure of its true contents to the provider.
United States authorities acknowledged the help of Jamaican officers in securing Alexander’s extradition, together with the Workplace of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Jamaica Constabulary Pressure.
