Contract killer vet
Pinto Nag, Green Thumb and Gregg all sent us a link from NBC in regards to a contract killer and veteran, Joseph “Rambo” Hunter, I guess he gave himself the “Rambo” nickname. What a moron. He took a contract for a hit on a DEA agent from folks he thought were drug cartel members, but DEA agents themselves. Rambo had a team of four including another US Army guy and two Germans and a Pole.
The cabal went to Thailand in March, the African nation of Mauritius in April, and the Bahamas in June to perform surveillance and soon signed on for a more nefarious undertaking: the murder of a law-enforcement officer, officials said.
Hunter enlisted two of the men, German sniper Dennis “Nico” Gogel and U.S. Army veteran Timothy “Tay” Vamvakias for what he called a “bonus job” — a plot to murder a Drug Enforcement Administration agent and an informant in Liberia for $800,000.
Visas and plane tickets were obtained, a submachine gun and .22 caliber pistols were ordered, and sophisticated Hollywood-style latex face masks, which could make someone appear to be of another race, were shipped to Africa.
With Hunter “quarterbacking” the operation from Thailand, Gogel, 27, and Vamakias, 42, flew to Liberia earlier this week with plans to carry out the twin assassinations, Bharara said. By then, the DEA “had seen enough” and took them down, the prosecutor said.
The article gives Hunter the dates of service from 1983 to 2004 and they say that he is “highly decorated” but it’s hard to imagine someone highly decorated through that period, unless they think that 7 Good Conduct Medals and two National Defense Service Medals is highly decorated. They quote the indictment as saying that he was “serving as a sniper instructor and senior drill sergeant” and that he “earned awards for expert marksmanship” while he was stationed in Puerto Rico 2002 – 2004, so I’m guessing he missed the whole war on terror. There wasn’t much opportunity to be “highly decorated” from 1983 – 2004, if he was in Puerto Rico 2002 – 2004.
By the way, I “earned awards for expert marksmanship”, too. In fact, I’m pretty sure most of you did, too. It’s not a big deal to hit man-sized targets at various ranges 36 out of 40 shots.
Category: Shitbags
Geezuz, the media gets wood every time one of the shitheads comes up with a wild ass story.
It would only have taken 1 or 2 Iraq rotations to be highly decorated depending on his rank. Most SFC and up got SS for service in my battalion. One of the many ways the Army award system is broken.
Almost sounds like the beginning of a joke; a US Army guy and two Germans and a Pole walk into a bar…. But it turns out they are just a bunch of asshats. He was “serving as a sniper instructor and senior drill sergeant”. Must be some kind of new AIT school. He also “earned awards for expert marksmanship” while he was stationed in Puerto Rico 2002 – 2004 – I guess that was the only place and time that they were conducting weapons qualifications in the Army. Didn’t go to PR – no qualification badge for you. People who write for the news outlets need to proof read what they write. Also, Mr Rambutt just flushed his retirement down the hopper.
$800,000 cold cash? Hey, for that kind of money, the agent might have simply retired and entered anpother line of work.
$800 grand? And he kept doing the deal? That’s not very smart. He should have demanded half in advance, plus expenses, in cash, deposited in a bank account in Macao and as soon as the cash was there, disappeared.
That’s what I would…. What?
Never mind.
1) Why did he need a sniper to operate a sub-machine gun?
2) My unit was in Grenada and I’m pretty sure it was 1983 so he could have been decorated as they were handed out like candy
I am nick name deprived, and have been since enlisting in the AF at 17. Am I now required to come up with a nifty nick name to fit in?
That is just full of comedy…it writes itself.
Worst part of the article listed the weapons they got- to include “.22 cal revolvers with silencers”. That’s a quote.
If it’s an accurate quote, this guy obviously was honor grad at sniper school…
You can’t make some of this shit up…
@9 – Mr. Wolf, are you saying that they found the gun that the holdup guy tried to scare me with on the back steps to my apartment in 1986? That one didn’t have a silencer, though.
Let me see if I’ve got this straight: this idiot decided to hire himself out as a hit man and got caught.
Nope, you really can’t make this stuff up.
He has arrived in NYC will be meet a magistrate at 500 Pearl Street. Local news is reporting he was a sniper in the mil. Yeah right.
I think he’s a Sniper like P. D. Monkress is a SEAL!
(sigh). The profession of journalism, previously on its death bed, is now officially dead. Any hard facts that may be behind the story, one would have to read between TWO lines to separate from the BS, fiction, and agenda-driven bias.
@9. Nah, they were gonna do the hits up close and personal, like the Mossad. That’s why they went with .22’s.
Douchebags…And since one of them is German, Arschloch.