A federal jury has found a St. Cloud man guilty of aiding and abetting unlicensed firearms dealing and possession of a firearm as an alien admitted under a nonimmigrant visa.
Jincheng Shi, 28, faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 9, 2026.
According to testimony and evidence presented at his trial, Shi, who was indicted on Sept. 3, was admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant work visa in 2022, placing him in a prohibited class of persons not legally allowed to possess firearms. Since then, Shi operated a firearms parts business through which he sold various firearms parts and accessories at gun shows and out of a rented storage unit, the Department of Justice reports.
Co-defendants Victor Lafontaine and Jose Maldonado were among his customers, who then assembled the parts into completed firearms and sold them without the required Federal Firearms License. The evidence at trial showed that Lafontaine sold firearms to prohibited persons, including convicted felons.
When executing a search warrant at Shi’s home on Feb. 20, 2025, federal agents found multiple firearms, including the Ruger rifle depicted.
Trial evidence showed that Shi knew that his customers were assembling the firearms parts into completed firearms for sale.
Shi was originally charged with six other individuals, including Lafontaine and Maldonado, as part of a gun trafficking operation. Shi’s six codefendants pleaded guilty and either have been sentenced or are awaiting sentencing.
Former KPD officer sentenced in child sexual abuse material case
A former Kissimmee Police officer has been sentenced after being found guilty of receiving child sexual abuse material by a federal jury.
A U.S. District judge has sentenced Dariel Javier Quiles-Davila, 27, to seven years in federal prison for receiving child sexual abuse material. Quiles-Davila was found guilty by a federal jury on Aug. 22.
According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Quiles-Davila met a minor victim while responding to a domestic disturbance on Oct. 3, 2023. After learning the minor victim’s contact information, Quiles-Davila, who was hired by KPD in March 2021, began to communicate directly with the minor victim with his personal cell phone and over social media, sent the minor victim money through a CashApp account and solicited and received sexually explicit photographs and videos of the child victim.
In June 2024, Detectives learned, by way of several search warrants for the victim and suspect's social media accounts, he had pornographic photographs of the minor within his social media account, along with evidence of payments and their sexual conversations.
