(GunReports.com) — United States Attorney George E.B. Holding announced that yesterday a Federal Grand Jury returned a Superseding Indictment charging, Steven Neal Greenoe, a United States citizen, in the illegal export of firearms from the United States to the United Kingdom.
Greenoe, 37, of Raleigh, North Carolina, was charged with conspiring to export firearms illegally from the United States, dealing in firearms without a license, nine counts each of interstate and foreign travel to deal in firearms without a license, failing to notify common carrier of firearms shipment, exporting firearms from the United States without a license, smuggling firearms outside the United States, and twelve counts of falsifying ATF Form 4473.
According to the Indictment, Greenoe and at least two other individuals he recruited either personally or on his behalf, obtained pistol purchase permits, completed the Form 4473 Firearms Transaction Record required to purchase firearms, and purchased firearms.
After purchasing the firearms, Greenoe took the firearms apart and disguised the firearms as machining engineering samples and inert firearms and concealed them in his checked luggage.
As alleged in the indictment, on nine occasions, from February 22, 2010, to July 25, 2010, Greenoe concealed a total of 63 pistols in his checked luggage and traveled from Raleigh, North Carolina to the United Kingdom.
It is also alleged that Greenoe did not provide written notice to the airline that firearms were being transported nor did he first obtain a license or written authorization from the Department of State for the export as required by federal laws. The Indictment further alleges that Greenoe made false statements to a federally licensed dealer, where on the ATF Form 4473, in connection with the acquisition of the firearms, he claimed that the firearms were for his own use.
