A U.S. Dis­trict Judge sen­tenced a 39-year-old man from Kissim­mee, Flori­da to three years and one month in fed­er­al prison for smug­gling firearms in­ter­na­tion­al­ly.

Chrissie Fi­er Williams plead­ed guilty on Jan­u­ary 2, 2024.

Ac­cord­ing to court doc­u­ments, on five sep­a­rate oc­ca­sions from Jan­u­ary 28, 2021, through Oc­to­ber 4, 2022, Williams pre­pared pack­ages with house­hold items to be sent to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Williams was said to have con­cealed firearms, firearm parts, and am­mu­ni­tion in­side pack­ages.

The pack­ages con­tained com­plet­ed pis­tols and AR-style ri­fles, parts that could be as­sem­bled in­to com­plet­ed guns, ex­tend­ed mag­a­zines in­clud­ing a 65-round drum mag­a­zine and a 100-round drum mag­a­zine, and am­mu­ni­tion to match the firearms be­ing smug­gled.

Willians was said to have pre­pared fake ship­ping man­i­fests to con­ceal the con­tents, and paid “straw ship­pers” to de­liv­er the pack­ages un­der their names.

This case was in­ves­ti­gat­ed by Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty In­ves­ti­ga­tions, with as­sis­tance from the Bu­reau of Al­co­hol, To­bac­co, Firearms and Ex­plo­sives and De­part­ment of Com­merce’s Bu­reau of In­dus­try and Se­cu­ri­ty. It was pros­e­cut­ed by As­sis­tant Unit­ed States At­tor­ney Dana E. Hill.