North Carolina Man Sentenced for Trafficking Firearms

BOSTON – A North Carolina man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for firearms trafficking. 

Gabriel Gispert-Poe, 24, of Hope Mills, N.C., was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock to 18 months probation and was ordered to pay a fine of $1,000. On Sept. 22, 2021, Gispert-Poe pleaded guilty to one count of engaging in the business of dealing in firearms without a license. 

At various times in 2019 and 2020, Gispert-Poe acquired firearms in North Carolina from straw buyers or other sources, and then sold these firearms to Chiweze Ihunwo at a profit. Ihunwo then transported the firearms he obtained from Gispert-Poe to Massachusetts and offered them for resale, including through social media. Gispert-Poe and Ihunwo communicated by phone regarding the proposed acquisition and subsequent resale of firearms.

On Dec. 16, 2021, Ihunwo was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin to 15 months in prison and three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to trafficking firearms in August 2021.

United States Attorney Rachael S. Rollins and James Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives made the announcement. Assistance was provided by the Randolph Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney William Abely, Chief of Rollins’ Criminal Division, prosecuted the case