Man Attempts to Enter 29 Palms MCB with Fake ID
KESQ News Channel 3 reports that a man tried to enter the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, California using a fake ID card.
Man accused of trying to use fake ID card to enter 29 Palms Marine Base
By Jesus Reyes | May 26, 2020A 40-year-old Vista man was arrested on Friday after authorities say he tried to enter the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) in Twentynine Palms using a fake ID card.
Deputies from the Morongo Basin Sheriff’s Station were called to the 3400 block of Adobe Road to assist Provost Marshal Officers with the suspect on Friday at approximately 8:51 a.m.
The suspect, identified as Miguel Angel Felix, was arrested for being in possession of forged identification card with intent to defraud.
The department did not release any information on why Felix was attempting to gain access to the marine base. He was booked at the Morongo Basin Jail Friday morning, however, his bail was set to $0 in compliance with the statewide Emergency Bail Schedule and he was released from custody that same day.
The statewide Emergency Bail Schedule sets the bail at $0 for most misdemeanor and lower-level felony offenses
Anyone with information related to this investigation is asked to contact the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, Morongo Basin Station at (760)366-4175. Anyone wishing to remain anonymous may contact We-Tip at 1-888-78-CRIME.
A systematic search of the DoD Manpower Data Center database shows no active duty service for Miguel A. Felix but he could have been in the reserves.
I don’t think this was Miguel’s first rodeo since he seems to have had past trouble with the law.
It does not say what the beef was that he was arrested for in 2016, but he had a judgment against him in that same year – Nov 2016 – the creditor listed as San Diego County Department of Child Support Services. Not sure if the arrest in Feb 2016 was related to this or not.
Jumping ahead to Friday’s activity, they seemed to have released him from jail already.
Who knows, maybe he was just trying to get into “The Warrior Club” – Enlisted Club / hard building – and just have a drink? Or maybe he was trying to get into The Warrior Club – virtual association with being a Marine?
With all the recent terrorist-related activities on military installations, it would not seem to be a wise move, considering his weapon of choice is a zip gun.
Isn’t there a Murphy’s Law of Combat having to do with engaging with the enemy that has a larger caliber weapon that yourself? If there isn’t a Law, there should be.
In any case, I don’t know if this is Stolen Valor even though he may have been passing himself off as active duty. He could have been passing himself off as a dependent or government worker since it doesn’t say. Also, the goal may not have been stolen valor, it seems more centered around access to the base.
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Miguel is NOT a true Marine – most Marines I know that were stationed at 29 Stumps were trying to get OFF the base, not on it.
Thinking the same thing KIR. Maybe he was lonely and just “Looking for a few good men”? Searching for Aviators that hadn’t lost that loving feeeling? Looking for a volleyball game? Shoulda took that left turn at El Toro?
I think we should really implement that whole “Use of Deadly Force is Authorized” policy.
Dumbass!
A volleyball game with sweat-glistened bodies?
But no sand sticking to them at all….
He could have tried MCAS Miramar, closer to home.
Then again, he doesn’t even qualify for the Miramar Brig.
Damned skippy there. That place is the definition of major league sucky.
That’s a fact!
That was intended to be a reply to Keepin’ It Real’s comment.
Dumbass.
I TOLD him he shouldn’t have used the name “McLovin”.
Maybe he heard the commissary has toilet paper.
Negative. He wanted to head over to the Base Exchange and score some of that sweet Marine Corps Communications Electronics School swag, maybe one of those t-shirts reading “The Key To Success In Battle Is Effective Communications”. It just so happens to be true, do you know how much damage that you can do by dropping a broken AN/PRC-77 from the fourth floor window on some miscreants below?
Interesting
I do have think about his maybe a little more common people trying to gain access
Then reported ex-spouses ex-service members you name it
I do remember a issue around 7 years ago at a hospital on Nellis AFB
With former spouses trying to gain access to the hospital
Illegally
Like some folks, he may have thought he could get some free shit from the base to help survive the COVID crisis.
After all, there are a few people who believe that haircuts are free on military installations, and that there is an abundance of products at the commissary and exchanges that cost virtually nothing – or something along those lines.
Fucker sure did get out of jail quickly.
He should have went to Yermo instead of 29 Palms.
It’s my understanding there is still a big pile of unused chock blocks right next to the rail head and he seems to fit right into that category of usefulness to the world./s
Proper punishment would’ve been to let him on and turn him over to whatever poor bastards are going through CAX.
If that don’t learn ’em nothing will.
Odd I will say
Most people I know are trying to leave 29 palms
Not sneak on it
Yeah, most people are swayed by the name since it sounds like paradise… when you’ve been there you realize that there’s irony in that there name.
Like Ft. Bliss.
Hell Paso
As a three time offender at MCCES, Hack Stone concurs.
Oh, Hack, I am so sorry. No one should have to endure that more than once.
Yep… two time resident of the high desert “paradise”…
I still recall a CAX at Camp Wilson / 29 Palms, digging into my MRE and pulling out the bag of M&Ms during the heat of the day. It was a bag of liquid. I had to cut the corner and squish it into my mouth like astronaut food.
What year were you out there? Hack is wondering if his high score on the Terminator 2 pinball machine in the Camp Wilson Beer Hall still stands.
Early 1990s. I’d have to check on the exact year.
We called that club “The Warrior Club” but I don’t know if that was the official name or just it’s nickname. Everything was either “combat” or “warrior” such as getting a Combat Burger with Warrior Fries. I often speculated that the Day Care Center on Main Side probably had G.I. Joe’s and platic M-16s for the kids to play with.
That’s why at All-Points Logistics (Merritt Island, Florida) it called the Phildoburger with a side of Lies!
And of course, the base movie theater was most likely called the “Combat Theater” — pun intended.
Wanting to hang out by Lake Bandini?
Hack was going to comment on him launching his yacht on Lake Bandini.
He wanted to check out the windsurfing at the lake…
What a marone!!!
Zero dollar bail. Bet that’s working out In Kommiefornia about as well as it’s working in the state of Blue York…
Better if zero dollar bail required a genuine zero dollar bill….
This reminds me of a couple of weeks ago when the local PD called and said that they were looking for an individual who had fled onto our range complex and that he was dangerous and to call them if he was spotted. My reply was “sir, this is an active rifle range and all the Soldiers have ammo. I’m pretty sure that we are safe”. He laughed and said that the guy would have to be pretty stupid to mess with us.
I had to shut down numerous ranges on Huachuca because of illegals in the impact area. Never exactly felt they were a threat…
Funny thing, it seemed to stop happening after we got a border fence.
Coincidence?
Our problem is that we have a dike road that runs behind our ranges that every morning we have to lock it down and put flags up. People make drug deals back there and we find a drunk passed out there in their vehicle at least once a week. The Army used to dump expended brass back there in the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s and we once found a tweeker encampment back there. They were mining the brass and selling it. They were found there by accident and we had no idea how long they had been staying out there in numerous ranges SDZs.
The USMC referred to the area just behind the target berm as “The Butts.” If you pulled target duty it was referred to as “working the butts.”
The Butts has its own culture. In Quantico Va there is a little shed that stores the targets and it is what they call “The Butt House.” It even has a little red and yellow USMC sign out in front labeling it that.
The Butt House has an entire concession area where you can get gedunk and a freshly grilled hot dog which I called a Butt House dog.
I don’t think they named the road leading up to it but in the example you cited it would be dike road leading to working the butts.
He just wanted to pick up some tanker boots at clothing sales.
“Possess zip gun”…If you ever get a chance and have some time to waste, (time you don’t mind never getting back) read California firearms laws. They read like they were written by a toddler trying to describe the monster hiding under his bed as the most horrifying thing on the planet.
We had another poser a few years back do this shit.
But he was successful. A younger African-American clown posing as a Officer (if I recall).
He would enter base, walk around in uniform(s) and smoke dudes, give orders, etc. All kinds of shit.
He got busted of course. I can only imagine The False Commander “Phony” Phil Monkress (CEO of All-Points Logistics) bailed him out.
Dude was to good to lose as All-Points Logistics (Merritt Island, FL) would have a hard time hiring another Field Operations Trainer of that clown’s skill.
GT, is that the Kelse Denise Hoover/Michael Cipriani who was actually some sort of transgender female posing as a male EOD LT in an airport?
I could say it took some balls to do that, but…..
No.
This was a dude that actually showed up on bases (I think his girlfriend may have actually been in / lived on post).
Dude had guts. I will give him that.
I will see if I can find him.
That name sounds fake as fulk.
“Anyone wishing to remain anonymous may contact We-Tip at 1-888-78-CRIME”
That’s funny.
I won’t go past the tip — I promise.
What did the leper say to the prostitute?