A Laurel man was sentenced to over three years in federal prison Thursday for a scheme to ship stolen rental cars out of the Port of Baltimore to Africa.

Rodley Balthazar, 30, pleaded guilty in October to one count of conspiracy to commit transportation of stolen motor vehicles and one count of the receipt and possession of stolen motor vehicles, according to court records.

According to the indictment, Balthazar used a fake ID to rent a Jeep in Woodbridge, Virginia, in September 2019. A week later, the car was recovered by customs at the Port of Baltimore from a shipping container bound for Sierra Leone. Balthazar also rented cars with fake documents in Florida, Tennessee and Washington, D.C., according to the indictment.

U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Balthazar, who is originally from Haiti, to 37 months in prison and three years of supervised release Thursday.

An attorney representing Balthazar did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday night.

According to court documents, law enforcement tracked over 40 vehicles that Balthazar and his co-conspirators either exported or attempted to export to West Africa.

Jonathan Davis, 39, also from Laurel, previously pleaded guilty to receipt and possession of stolen vehicles and was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison. Another co-conspirator, Abdul Karim Turay Jr., has pleaded guilty and is scheduled to be sentenced next month, according to a news release from the state attorney’s office.