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| Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 |
| Man indicted for trafficking in guns, with Haiti as final
destination |
ALBANY — An Albany man made his first appearance in federal court
Tuesday after being indicted for illegally trafficking firearms to Haiti, court documents
show.
Waking Vincent, age unknown, was indicted Dec. 5, 2007, by a grand jury for illegally
buying firearms and then arranging for them to be taken by boat to Haiti for sale.
Vincent appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard Hodge Wednesday for his initial
court appearance, but because he didn’t have an attorney and federal public defenders
weren’t immediately available, his case was continued to a later date.
Vincent is saddled with a 22-count federal indictment alleging that he bought firearms
— handguns, rifles and shotguns — from Georgia Loan and Sales in Albany by
making false statements between 2004 and 2006, court documents show.
On July 16, 2006, Vincent told Dougherty County Police officers that his home had been
burglarized and that some firearms had been stolen — a move prosecutors believe was
done to help him transport the weapons out of the country, documents show.
In September, prosecutors say that Vincent shipped a television, secretly storing at
least nine handguns inside, to a home in Miami. Later that month, he and an unnamed
accomplice drove to Miami with 25 to 30 boxes of ammunition, met up with the person with
the television and test-fired the weapons, according to the indictment.
While there, Vincent met with an unidentified Creole-speaking person who prosecutors
say Vincent paid a sum of money to transport the weapons to Haiti and other Caribbean
countries.
© 2008 The Albany Herald/Triple Crown Media. Published February 21, 2008.
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