Retired Airman attempts to gain base entry by claiming to be Captain America
Baruch Roche II, 33, attempted to enter MacDill Air Force Base. However, instead of using his ID card to gain entry, he claimed to be Captain America. As “Captain America,” Roche needed to gain access to the base so that he could talk to US Special Operations Command. Roche had secret information that he needed to provide to them. Security did not buy that explanation. A check of Roche’s car revealed an ID card showing that he was retired. This was not the only thing discovered in his vehicle.
From Fox News:
Baruch Roche II, 33, tried to enter the MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa last month, saying he was “Captain America” and that he had a meeting with a U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) general to provide top secret information.
He is charged with one count of attempted possession of a firearm in a federal facility.
Rouche approached the military installation in a Hyundai Genesis just before 2:15 p.m. on Nov. 3, the Justice Department said Tuesday. After refusing to provide identification to security personnel, he said he was the beloved Marvel superhero character and that he was a member of SOCCOM, prosecutors said in a criminal complaint.
He also continued to reach for a bag in his vehicle and became argumentative, authorities said. Roche allegedly said he would come back to the base every day to look for the officers denying him entry.
He eventually gave the officers his military ID showing him to be retired from the Air Force and was arrested. During a search of the car, authorities found a Colt AR-15 assault rifle in the trunk and five magazines loaded with 125 rounds of .556 caliber ammunition, the court documents said.
Fox News provides additional information here.
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Retired at 33, tries to convince base security he’s Captain America (at least he wasn’t trying to convince them he was the Bree Larsen version of Captain Marvel), sounds like he’s got some bad things happening in his head.
Hopefully he’s able to get treatment and this incident doesn’t affect him long-term.
Nutjobs gonna nutjob…’specially Flur-ruh-duh Man. Maybe this shoulda been on the SPoTW Thread? Wonder Woman was unavailable for comment.
We should stick this dude in the Pentagon.
To be physically able and “medically retired” at 33 means it’s mental and of “lost it” severity.
I wonder of they stopped another nutter mass shooting?
Very possibly. I wonder if the report is accurate, though. “During a search of the car, authorities found a Colt AR-15 assault rifle in the trunk and five magazines loaded with 125 rounds of .556 caliber ammunition, the court documents said.”
Colt AR-15s aren’t the most common anymore. We got a special order in a few weeks back, and a vintage SP1 that a customer bought at another store early this year. We sell Ruger, S&W, Black Rain Ordnance, CMMG, Zev, FN, Wise Arms, and other MSRs. But the name Colt is still synonymous with the AR15 in some circles. What really flags this for me is the five mags with 125 rounds. Rimfire AR15 lookalikes all come with 25-round mags in states where those are legal. We sell the S&W M&P15-22, HK416D, and Hammerli Tac R1. That would make more sense than having five underloaded 30-round 5.56mm mags, or four fully loaded ones and one with only five rounds.
I just read into things too much, but I can see where an ignorant or malicious reporter would twist a rimfire plinking rifle into a deadly “military grade assault rifle”.
Millions of Colts were built. Lots on the secondary market. I own one or two myself.
Of course there is no “.556” cartridge so flaw one. Colt did make an “M4 AR-15” in 22lr.
https://blog.cheaperthandirt.com/colt-m4-review/
But it had 30 round magazines. There is no reason to under load a .22 mag, the tension isn’t that high.
It is a media story with guns so…
You forgot one;
OK as long as we’re being silly, I’ll just leave this here…..or ARE we?!?!?!? (hmmmmmm)
LMAO! This post/image required a “spew” disclaimer as the “Tally ho, lads!” with the grapeshot at the top of the stairs just made me mess up my keyboard in laughter…
Nice, need more like this, hahahaha
I’m surry you fucktard but when I got to the mace…I just giggled.. unexpected.LOLZ!
I owned an AR-15 and an AR-180 plus others what the lame stream media call “style” Mil assault weapons. at the time years ago, most people never heard of the stuff I owned before selling them off. Only rifles are two .22 cal. break away gallery guns that I brought down to Fl.
More…
And… the Subway footlong is definitely a public hazard, you know. /sarc
Just ask the guy in a previous post with the giant teddy bear.
This made my day. Thank you!
You’re not the only on FM, I was doing math in my head too. Probably 25 round under loaded 30 round mags.
I have a tendancy to not full spring all my mags just because at time, the weapon can get shitty with that last (first) round under full pressure. I was shooting a FN 502 (yeah yeah but that’s a .22!) the other day and it had a 15 rd mag and I jammed it full and I dropped the slide and it said Fuck You! and jammed me right back. LOL ! I run it with 5 or 10 and no problems. Same thing with some of my 9mm. NOT that I’ve had a problem but I have my Canik mags where I carry 2 with 15 in them, I believe they tak 18 or 20 and I’n rather not risk it. I also dump them at the range form time to time because I’ve read it’s not the best to keep the same rounds and mags fully loaded and sitting around all the time….but I’ve also ready that means shit, as long as you have quality magazines with it’s really not an issue with good steel speings in them these days.
I find that ProMag HiPower mags are junk mags that bind up. They’d be good for 10 rounders in an oppressive state except they are supposed to hold 13 or 15.
MecGar is better… but you’re still trying to cram a bazllion rounds into the shortest double-stack mag out there.
Well that’s a different Florida man story than we usually hear about.
Good to hear the SP`s were doing their job and he didn’t gain access to the base, as it sounds like he was loaded up enough to cause real harm.
Had he gone in civvies and said I’m shopping at the BX or commissary this story would most likely been on national news.
Just yet another disgruntled All-Points Logistics employee.
Yep, looking at the booking picture I can definitely see the resemblance…
Sounds like he was not planning to shoot everybody up, he just wanted his shield back, because the AR-15 wasn’t cutting it! If he just wanted to shoot everyone up, he could of casually showed his Retiree card and then proceeded to the place he wanted to make a spectacle of!
I guess that is 5 magazines with 25 rounds each (total of 125), not each mag had 125 rounds.
Sorry, no. Cap rides a Harley, not a Hyundai. Everyone knows this.
They didn’t let me in when I told them I was Spidermun either.
That’s Howie Spidermun, the Jewish accountant.
Your story just doesn’t add up.
At least he didn’t try to drag Batman into it.
Speaking of Batman, an anniversary post popped up on Hack Stone’s Facebook page the other day. The gist of the post, from about ten years ago, was that Hack and Rosetta Stone were driving through the main gate of Joint Base Andrews. Hacked looked over to the outbound lane, and saw what looked like the 1960’s television version of the Batmobile exiting the base. Hack asked Rosetta if she just saw the Batmobile. She did not. Curious as to (see what Hack did there?) why the Batmobile would be on base, Hack went to the Bing search engine (Hack does not Google), and typed in Batman Joint Base Andrews, figuring that maybe the Public Affairs would release an article about the Batmobile participating in some mandatory family fund day. Much like gambling in Branson Missouri, it was “no dice”. It did return a listing for a Doctor Batman assigned to the Joint Base Andrews Clinic. Do you suppose the security working the gate Eve asked him his name, and he replied “I’m Batman!”?
The posted photo reminded me of the “Captain America” featured in this video of “Living the Dream”:
Hey, it can’t be the real guy… Steve Rogers got fed-up with the VA not covering his sh*t and killed himself in their parking lot after the credits in Avengers: Infinity War! /sarc
https://duffelblog.substack.com/p/endgame-spoiler-captain-america-kills-himself-in-va-parking-lot-post-credits
End Game, my bad.
Don’t give Disney any more ideas, thebesig.
Boy’s crazier than a rat in a tin shithouse
The toppings slid off that pizza.
Nah. The took one look and ran away
What an asshole! Trying to pass himself off as CPT America!?!?!? WTH??? Everyone knows that he IS NOT CPT America!
I’m not saying that I AM CPT America. It’s just that CPT America and I have never been seen in the same place, at the same time!😉