Ft. Campbell officer charged with smuggling firearm parts from Russia, other countries

Federal prosecutors say a US Army lieutenant colonel has been arrested on charges that he illegally imported firearms parts from foreign countries including Russia and dealt weapons without a license. 

The US attorney's office in Nashville says 40-year-old Frank Ross Talbert has been indicted on 21 charges including importing defense articles without a license and smuggling firearms parts into the US. 

Talbert is a lieutenant colonel with US Army Explosives Ordinance Disposal at Fort Campbell. 

He was arrested Thursday. Talbert pleaded not guilty during a hearing in federal court in Nashville. 

Authorities say the imported parts came from Russia, Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic.