The Dominican Robert Alcantara from 34 years ago he was arrested and charged last Thursday with maintaining a factory of weapons ghosts in his house Providence in Rhode Island, which then trafficked to the Dominican Republic, ensuring that your mother was in charge of transporting the pistols, rifles and other artifacts to his native country.
To manufacture and transport 15 pistols Glocks, Alcántara charged $ 9,624 with “taxes” included.
The feds detained him after he bought materials from assembly for the weapons at a fair weapons in Morgantown, Pennsylvania, where he invested more than $ 16,000.
In his vehicle, the FBI found 46 upper-level devices and 45 lower-level devices.
Alcántara, who maintained a YouTube channel promoting his illicit business, and giving explanations of how he assembled the weapons, shooting them.
The investigation led authorities to the home of the Dominican and to the networks where they were exposed.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District in Manhattan Damian Williams It said in a statement that Alcántara was running a lethal business. He was also prosecuted in the federal court from Rhode Island.
The researchers They say that Alcantara lied in the interrogation about his trips to the Dominican Republic, where he was portrayed exhibiting pistols Glock and thousands of dollars on the platform of a bank that he had in a suitcase and then uploaded the image to the networks.
They also maintain that, as part of the irrefutable evidence, they have the video and photos of Alcántara showing the weapons, in addition to the text messages he sent to potential clients.
“Everything works. No problem. Very nice ”, Alcántara is heard saying in his videos speaking in English and Spanish, and in one of the visuals he appears shooting one of the pistols Glock 9 mm.
“ALCANTARA´s Ghost Arms Home Factory”(Home Factory of Weapons ALCANTARA ”, he titled in another YouTube space.
According to the prosecution, he sold more than 100 weapons on November 20, 2021.
In a 2019 video cited in the complaint, he shows a homemade 9mm Glock, loads it with an extended magazine, and then opens fire.
In one photo, there were five pistols ghosts on a mat with crafting instructions.
“As alleged, the defendant agreed with others to buy the parts of these weapons of fire, assemble them at home and then sell more than 100 of them illegally ”, adds the file.
Alcantara was working with five accomplices at the end of 2019, accuse the feds.
According to messages in his Signal app, he was spending thousands of dollars on parts of weapons each month. Texts show he delivered bullets to Philadelphia in September and purchased $ 32,000 worth of ammunition in November, according to a complaint.
In a series of text messages in July 2021, Alcántara told an accomplice that he could make his mother carry weapons of fire with her on a trip from the United States to Dominican Republic.
“Me mother He comes tomorrow. In case you wanted to send something, ”said the message, which was written in Spanish.
In another text, he wrote that weapons they were ready to be exported to Dominican Republic.
He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.