Fifty-Five Guns, Fifteen Suppressors and Four Thousand Rounds on Two Invoices, and the Most Either Man Can Get Is Five Years: Guy Deland and Charan Singh Plead Guilty in Buffalo, Nine Years After the Wires Cleared (September 16, 2026)

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The shipment never left. That is the first thing to understand about the file two Quebec men pleaded guilty to on Wednesday: the guns on the two invoices were never loaded onto anything, because the seller was an undercover agent and the bank account that took the down payment belonged to the United States government. What did happen, according to prosecutors, is that Guy Deland, 68, and Charan Singh, 56, were told in writing that exporting the goods required a State Department licence, wrote back acknowledging the transactions were illegal, handed the agent an encrypted BlackBerry to keep the conversation quiet, and then wired the money anyway — in two transfers of $34,990 US, sent one day apart.

The two orders they were paying toward, read together, describe a small arsenal: forty Glock 9 mm pistols, fifteen Uzis, fifteen suppressors, eighty magazines and four thousand rounds of ammunition, bound for Dubai and for Colombia by way of Panama. The maximum sentence either man faces is five years and a $250,000 fine.

Two Wires, One Day Apart, Ten Dollars Short of Thirty-Five Thousand

The money is the most precise detail in the file and the one the reporting leaves standing without comment. Fifty per cent of the two invoices combined comes to just under $71,000 US. What the undercover account received was not one transfer of that size. It was two transfers of $34,990 each, on February 6 and February 7, 2017 — consecutive days, identical amounts, each ten dollars below $35,000.

It is worth being exact about what is and is not alleged there. Neither the prosecutor’s release as quoted nor the CTV report uses the word structuring, alleges a reporting-threshold offence, or offers any explanation for why the payment was split. No such allegation is made in this briefing either. The figures are simply what the record contains, set side by side, and the reader can weigh them.

An Encrypted Handset, Handed to the Buyer

The encrypted BlackBerry is the detail that places this file on this beat rather than in a trade-compliance column. Prosecutors say the defendants did not merely use encrypted communications — they supplied the device to the person they believed was their arms supplier, for the express purpose of secure, covert communications.

That is a deliberate operational step, and it sits awkwardly beside the rest of the account. The same defendants had already been told in writing that a State Department licence was needed. The invoices themselves carried printed language saying export without a licence was prohibited. Prosecutors say the defendants acknowledged the illegality. A party that believed it was doing something lawful does not hand its counterparty a covert handset. The purchasing side of this transaction, on the government’s account, understood exactly what it was buying and how it intended to move it.

Thirteen Uzis and Thirteen Suppressors on One Order

The Colombia invoice is the larger of the two by a factor of roughly six, and its composition is the part worth reading closely. Thirty-seven Glock 9 mm pistols and seventy-four magazines — exactly two magazines per pistol, the way a shipment is specified rather than the way an individual buys. Thirteen Uzis. Thirteen suppressors: one for every Uzi on the order. Three thousand rounds.

The Dubai order is the same shape in miniature: three Glocks, six magazines — again two apiece — two mini Uzis, two suppressors, a thousand rounds. Both lists pair suppressors to submachine guns one-to-one and magazines to pistols two-to-one. Nothing in the reporting says who specified those ratios, and no inference about the intended end use is drawn here. The United States Munitions List classification is the legal fact that made any of it an export offence; the arithmetic is simply visible on the face of the invoices.

Nine Years and Ten Months

The conduct alleged runs from November 2016 to April 2017. The wires cleared in February 2017. The guilty pleas were reported on September 16, 2026 — nine years and ten months after the conduct began, and nine years and seven months after the money arrived.

Neither the release nor the CTV report explains the interval, and nothing in either account indicates when the two men were charged, arrested or extradited, or whether either has spent any time in custody. Cross-border prosecutions involving foreign nationals routinely run long, but the specific reason this one ran this long is not in the public record. Deland returns before Judge Richard J. Arcara on December 18 and Singh on January 16; the reporting does not state whether those dates are for sentencing.

What Is Not Alleged

No criminal organization, street gang, mafia group or outlaw motorcycle club has been named by the United States Attorney’s office, by Homeland Security, by the RCMP or by CTV News in connection with this file. Neither Deland nor Singh nor Aydan Sin is described as a member or associate of any group, and no onward recipient in Dubai or Colombia is identified. None is named or implied here, and no profile page on this site is linked, because no organization covered by one has been named by anyone.

No firearm actually left the United States on this file, and no shipment reached Dubai, Colombia or Panama. The seller was an undercover agent throughout and the receiving bank account was a government account. No violence, injury or use of any weapon is alleged.

Deland and Singh have both pleaded guilty. The account of the conduct set out above is the prosecution’s, as published in the United States Attorney’s release and reported by CTV News. Aydan Sin has not been convicted on this record, and any allegation against him remains untested.