Ex-US Marine Steven Greenoe admits smuggling guns into the UK - Liverpool Local News - News - Liverpool Echo: "FORMER US Marine believed to have armed criminal gangs on the streets of Liverpool pleaded guilty to smuggling guns into the UK.

Steven Greenoe was alleged to have imported at least 66 weapons into the country from his home in North Carolina before selling them on.

The 37-year-old faces being jailed for up to 30 years when he is sentenced in June.

He admitted exporting firearms from the United States without a licence and travelling in foreign commerce to deal in firearms without a licence when he appeared in court in Greenville, North Carolina, yesterday.

Prosecutors dropped 48 other charges against him in return for the guilty pleas.

The trail that lead the authorities to Greenoe began when a police operation into the sale of weapons on the streets of Merseyside found a gang selling new guns."

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