Montreal man admits smuggling guns over border using Vermont library

A Canadian man has pleaded guilty in Vermont to smuggling more than 100 handguns into Quebec that had been stashed in a library straddling the international border.
Alexis Vlachos, 40, of Montreal, entered his guilty plea Monday in U.S. District Court in Burlington to federal charges of conspiring to export, and actually exporting, firearms from the United States to Canada, without a license, in violation of the Arms Control Export Act.
A sentencing date is set for May 7. Vlachos faces a maximum