Career malefactor sentenced in NN after using lover to illicitly acquire guns – Journal Global Web

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — A occupation malefactor from port was sentenced on weekday to 17 eld in situation for making simulated statements to illicitly straw-purchase firearms, according to suite documents.

According to suite documents, 42-year-old Dartanguia Antonious Lee has another aliases much as Donte, Dante, Dionte, Snoop, Snookie and Bully.

Lee is an brachiate occupation malefactor with individual preceding felony convictions, including earnest take crimes and fivesome convictions for pillage with a chanceful weapon. From Dec 2019 to March 2020, Lee utilised his lover as a straw-purchaser to obtain at small 19 firearms from quaternary federally licensed firearms dealers.

As a felon, Lee cannot acquire or possess firearms or ammunition. Lee ofttimes transferred the firearms to another felons who could not acquire their own, whatever of which hit already been recovered by accumulation enforcement.

Lee was inactive in Greensboro, North Carolina, in Sept 2022, months after his federal instrument in Virginia. He was understood as conception of a take trafficking enquiry that participating binary firearms.

Lee has pending charges in North Carolina.