Delta Force veteran faces additional federal criminal charges
Parker Allen Gibson was a retired intelligence NCO with Delta Force. In a previous charge, he was alleged to have stolen live grenades. In the latter charges, Gibson is charged with felony counts related to the grenades as well as for unlawfully holding classified material. Gibson was medically retired and has two Bronze Star Medals and a Purple Heart.
From the Army Times:
A former Delta Force soldier again faces federal criminal charges for allegedly stealing grenades and drones from his unit, according to court documents.
Parker Allen Gibson, who records say was a retired intelligence noncommissioned officer assigned to the secretive unit, had similar charges against him dismissed in 2022 due to a dispute over who had access to a North Carolina storage unit where various military gear was recovered. His then-wife, according to a 2022 transcript, is a special operations warrant officer.
In the first case, prosecutors claimed Gibson had stolen live grenades and stored them alongside various Delta Force memorabilia. The storage unit also held special operations ammunition and approximately 20 surveillance drones ranging in size from small DJI copters to fixed-wing units with a 10-foot wingspan.
Prosecutors filed new charges against Gibson on Feb. 23, and the retired soldier was arrested March 12. The Assembly, a North Carolina news outlet, first reported the new indictment.
The Army Times provides additional information here. A 2022 hearing related to his previous charges provides some history to this story.
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Koo-koo for cocoa puffs!
Or just plain koo-koo!
Even with verified honorable service, I’ll betcha that there’s a motorcycle and a leather vest involved somewhere in this brilliant caper.
Gonna be a dog somewhere too, Mick. Why else would he have dog harnesses and such rat holed with the other items?
Oh, I can think of a reason.
BAT SHIT CRAZY
That all
This is not gonna look good on his resume’.
Self-inflicted– don’t take the gov’t live ordnance and drones home with you.
Maybe he was just trying to prepare? The Ukrainians have been doing wonders with a drone and a hand grenade.
Pedo Joe enters the chat…
Who was found “unfit” to stand trial by the investigation.
“unlawfully holding classified material.”
Never understood folks throwing away an entire career over “appropriation” over maybe a $1000 of stuff.
That’s literally 2 weeks of a pension check or VA compensation.
Then again, I have seen folks in a very good paying union machine shop fired over stealing Toilet Paper…
O6s canned and sent home from NATO headquarters in Brussels for that, too– not even Charmin, the cheap corrugated European crap.
How much TP are they stealing that it gets noticed?😂
Stuffed briefcase with it, got caught by bag check on way out.
I never cease to be amazed at how little money people are willing to risk imprisonment over….
If it’s 8 figures and there’s a couple of bodies and no one has seen me it might be me that did it…but even then I need some guarantees that I picked the right non-extradition locale…
According to the testimony in that second link one Puma drone is worth over $200,000. There were two of those plus 1,000+ rounds of ammunition plus two live grenades and other drones and spare parts, etc.
Sticky fingers and a pissed wife.
FORT BRAGG 100%
Sade anniversary of the crash at Pope AFB.
RIP/AATW
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Wow, I don’t really remember the anniversary of this until somebody brings it up .
I was there.
I was scheduled to be sitting on the Green Ramp as part of an joint ORI mobilization exercise. Our teams and our aircrew were participating in a major ORI exercise full battle rattle, and we were supposed to fly to Pope AFB and then Avon Park Florida. We. changed the flight plan to land at Pope AFB second. Had our C-141 gone to Pope *first* we’d have been sitting on Green Ramp at the time of the accident. That was our workspace and we were going to be staging and working with 3rd MAPS. The accident happened within about 30 minutes of us flying over North Carolina and we got the message while we were still in the air. We landed and dropped our crew off at Avon Park Florida., and the other half flew and landed with M-16s and full gear at Fayetteville civilian airport in front of the press and a complete shit so show started. The base commander from Pope and one of the ORI senior inspectors and a general had to brief the press that it was just absolutely unfortunate timing. This exercise has been scheduled for months and months. For whatever reason there rumors that were some sort of attack going on and we were going to war. We ended up doing the exercise through the civilian airport and all our guys staged at the fire department.
Had we landed hours earlier on Green Ramp we would’ve been sitting right in the middle of all those C-141s in the parking area because that was our workspace and very likely many of us would’ve been injured or killed without question. God and angels were looking out for us that day. A Chief from our squadron turned and said to me and a couple other guys “I’ve never seen Green Ramp dark before”. ☹️
Thanks for posting these. There’s a lot of details on these that I had never known and I also were not curious enough to even want to look into. I’ve kind of avoided the subject.
I think the reason I saw that you posted it was it was time for me to be able to read this and it wasn’t as bad as I expected.
A very enviable service record flushed. Shameful.
Yes, Delta is the most difficult unit in the US military to be selected to join. Most have the tower of power and/or years of service with the Ranger battalions. Anyway, that is the way it used to be, before the proggy bootlickers took over.
Sounds to me after reading the links he was not an “operator”, he handled drones.
One of my former LPH 3 Engineering A Div crewmembers told me that after the BLT Marines came aboard the ship after an Op in Viet-Nam, he had to go through Marine officer’s country berthing and opened the access plates on the A/C ducts and came up with Grenades and ammo. When arriving in port, dogs were brought onboard to sniff out any stuff that shouldnt be onboard.
Good thing nobody searched me upon entering the US after a
tour in Viet of the Nam. That P-38 I snuck thru Customs woulda
got me 20 years.
I still have my P-38 on my key chain.
Ditto
On my Dog Tag Chain…for well over 50 years now. DAYUM, WE’RE OLD FARTS!
I lost it somewhere years ago.
Easily replaced with a new fake one but this one
had “blood” on it……..
I was searched by MP’s before I left country, at Cam Rahn Bay. We had a fellow in my Ranger company (before my time there) who tried to ship home a disassembled AK-47 taped inside the back of his Sanyo mini-refrigerator. Supposedly, he received a BCD and a year in Leavenworth. I left my Sanyo and my AK under-folder behind. But the MP’s confiscated three sets of jungle fatigues with all my rank and other insignia on them.
Did they keep him at LBJ before DEROS?
I doubt it because the fridge was shipped with his hold baggage. So he likely got on the “freedom bird” before the fridge was inspected and the gun discovered.
In 2004, I was running a BN HHC Arms Room when it was discovered that a Lee Enfield Mk. I (yes, not the ever-present Mk. III we tend to think of as the British service rifle during WWI) had been hidden in an LMTV. The unit had gone to Afghanistan in January 2002, then we deployed to Kuwait the following February, so someone must have decided they wanted this unfireable but historical chunk of wood and steel in one of those countries. I don’t think the culprit was ever found, but they treated it like a DShK had been keestered by someone coming back.
In Iraq, we had a SSG get in some trouble for daring to attempt to smuggle some bayonets home in a microwave. The regulations got so strict that we couldn’t take any sort of weapon home, but I got to keep my Republican Guard uniform and some pieces of kit.
Dangerous stuff there. During a traffic stop when we were dating, my wife was told that she could be charged with having a concealed weapon for wearing the P-38 I gave her on her necklace. Later, as I was shipping to Fort Benning for OSUT, security caught the P-38 on my keychain and confiscated it. I’m a bit younger than many here, being a solid part of the tear-open bag MRE vet posse, but the P-38 is an eternally useful–and deadly–tool. I’ve used the can openers on my Gerber and other multitools, and they suffice, but when I had the Can Opener Crisis of 2020 (or so), I wish I still had a P-38. Seriously, my electric can opener, and three or four manual can openers wouldn’t work. I’d buy a new one only to find it slipping off the rim.
Who knows…maybe it was operator error.
I got caught with a P-38 while going through a metal detector. The cop examined it closely, she wondered but didn’t ask what it was or why it was on my key ring, she looked around for a higher ranking cop but didn’t see one. I think she was (& certainly should have been) embarrassed for not knowing what it was. Finally, she handed my keys back to me and let me through. The next time I left my keys (except my car key) hidden in my car; I don’t need the drama.
TSA tried confiscating the P38 on my car key ring..when I suggested they could kiss my gluteus maximus as that P38 was older than he was, he said I was NOT getting through inspection. I put it in my carry-on, went back to the counter, and checked the bag – then boarded. Fuck them.
But don’t you feel so much safer knowing how alert TSA is to the tiniest threat to your safety? I know I do.
sarcasm, to be absolutely clear.
The f*cktards thought the MoH might be some evil Kung Fu weapon:
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ddrts/til_in_2002_a_86_year_old_man_was_held_45min_at/?rdt=59740
Of all the post-9/11 ludicrous stories of airport security that one I recall as being especially egregious. It almost reads like satire.
A CMH honoree, retired general officer and former governor of a US state on his way to speak to cadets at West Point is stopped by security screeners who have no idea what a CMH is or look like.
If you’re gonna donor, don’t get caught. The AF pilots used to smuggle stuff in their aircraft. Bomb bays, hiding spots, stuff that customs doesn’t check. Got some stuff dad brought back from Cambodia and Vietnam.