Former U.S. soldier pleads guilty to export violations

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Monday, September 10, 2012

Joseph Debose, a resident of North Carolina and a former staff sergeant in a U.S. Special Forces National Guard unit, pled guilty Friday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York to violating the Arms Export Control Act. According to court documents, Debose, 30, provided multiple shipments of firearms to co-conspirators who then secreted the weapons in packages and transported them to shipping companies to be sent to customers in China. The weapons included numero...

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