Fort Liberty Army officer sentenced to more than 5 years in effort to smuggle guns to Ghana

A Fort Liberty Army officer convicted last year on federal gun smuggling and false statement charges will spend more than five years in prison, a federal judge in North Carolina decided.

Maj. Kojo Owusu Dartey, 42, was sentenced on Tuesday to 70 months imprisonment by Chief U.S. District Judge Richard E. Myers II after his April 2024 conviction on charges related to smuggling weapons to Ghana and lying as a court witness, the Justice Department said.

A jury convicted Dartey of dealing in firearms without a license, delivering firearms without notice to the carrier, smuggling goods from the United States, illegally exporting firearms without a license, making false statements to a U.S. agency, making false declarations before the court, and conspiracy. He was acquitted on five counts of lying to gun stores while purchasing weapons, and on one charge that of impeding justice.

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