EXCLU: A Lamborghini-owning, tank-driving gun dealer accused of having multiple bombs at his palatial Arkansas home allegedly lied about being a Pentagon official.
before his real identity emerged. He stands charged with one count of unlawful possession of an unregistered destructive device.
Investigators combed through export records and official Department of State and Department of Commerce license applications for additional evidence. The paperwork listed a contact person named Mark Bailey, FedArm’s purported operations director.Months went by, and Mehta continued doing business as usual. On Sept. 10, 2022, Mehta was stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport for an outbound inspection, the affidavit states.
Mehta claimed he had been refused entry into Turkey, and detained and interrogated for four hours by Turkish officials who wanted to know more about the purpose of his trip.U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas The deals with Pakistan’s government could be worth millions, Mehta said, according to the affidavit. But Mehta was unable to provide any documentation to back up his story, it says.
As the investigation continued, Smith divulged more and more about Mehta and his shadowy doings. He said the two met in 2011, when both were working at a shooting range in Van Buren, northeast of Fort Smith. Smith said he quit his job at the range in 2018 to work for Mehta, who gave him $500,000 worth of firearms to sell. The proceeds would all go to Mehta, in exchange for a 50 percent stake in FedArm and FSAAP.
The multi-agency investigation was simultaneously examining other areas of Mehta’s operations—and allegedly found a trove of evidence showing he altered documents in an attempt to obstruct a civil probe into shorting employees’ pay.
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