Marine vet accused of faking deployment for free flights
A Marine veteran that currently works as a Federal Air Marshal stands accused of several crimes in relation to defrauding an American airline out of hundreds of free flights. I have a lot of questions as to how this happened. Chief among them is how did the TSA/Federal Air Marshals Service not know that this guy worked at an airline?!?
From Miami Herald;
A U.S. Marine Corps veteran faked deployments to take 130 free and discounted flights to the Caribbean, Europe and other destinations at the expense of a major airline, federal prosecutors said.
Dior Jay-Jarrett, 29, of Queens, New York, was arrested March 20 on a federal wire fraud charge in connection with the scheme that defrauded the airline of nearly $70,000, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
Attorney information for Jay-Jarrett, who now works as a federal air marshal with the Department of Homeland Security, wasn’t immediately available the afternoon of March 21.
Jay-Jarrett was on active military duty when he joined the airline as a baggage handler in October 2021, according to court documents. He was stationed on Long Island, New York, at the time.
However, a special agent with the U.S. Attorney’s Office suspects Jay-Jarrett “never intended to actually begin work as a baggage handler,” the agent wrote in a criminal complaint.
After one week of baggage handling training, Jay-Jarrett lied to the airline, saying the Marine Corps ordered his deployment to Kuwait for eight months, a criminal complaint says.
The airline, which was identified only as “Airline-1,” granted Jay-Jarrett military leave after he is accused of falsifying and providingmilitary deployment documents, according to the criminal complaint.
He did so “to obtain travel benefits for which he otherwise would not have been eligible,” the criminal complaint says.
“Rather than start work at Airline-1,” Jay-Jarrett continued to work as a military guard in Long Island — and worked another job as a loss prevention lead at a sporting goods store, a special agent wrote in the court filing.
While he was purportedly on military leave, Jay-Jarrett became a federal air marshal with DHS in October 2022, according to the criminal complaint. He retired as a staff sergeant from the Marine Corps the next month after having served since December 2013, the complaint said.
Jay-Jarrett never notified the airline of his retirement but provided the company with additional documents in June 2023 to support a longer military leave, according to prosecutors, who said he lied about being ordered on a deployment for two and a half years.
From November 2021 through September 2024, while pretending to be deployed, Jay-Jarrett took at least 130 flights because he “remained entitled to travel benefits including the ability to take unlimited, free flights on Airline-1, alongside ticketed family members or travel companions,” prosecutors said.
For free, Jay-Jarrett flew first class to Los Angeles, London, San Diego, St. George’s, Las Vegas and Dublin, according to prosecutors.
He also took dozens of standard-class flights to Antigua, Aruba, Bermuda, Mexico and other countries in the Caribbean and Central America, prosecutors said
In an August 2022 Facebook post, Jay-Jarrett shared photos of his five-day trip to Cabo San Lucas, according to the criminal complaint, which includes a screenshot of the post.
“Out of the 13 countries I’ve visited so far this year, this has genuinely been one of my FAVORITE solo trips,” Jay-Jarrett captioned the post, the criminal complaint shows.
Law enforcement interviewed Jay-Jarrett in September, and he acknowledged that he retired from the Marine Corps without telling the airline and faked military orders about purported deployments, prosecutors said.
Jay-Jarrett “racked up thousands of dollars in free or discounted flights while pretending to be deployed on military missions around the world,” Acting U.S. Attorney Matthew Podolsky said in a statement.
“He did so while simultaneously swearing an oath to protect and serve the public.”
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Wow, just wow….
The amazing level of sheer stupidity at thinking this scam would go unnoticed is absolutely astonishing.
I don’t know every place you visited while conducting your scam but I know where you’re going on your next trip.
Hack Stone always said that the Brig was chock full of Marines smarter than the Corps.
I always heard that EVERY Brig and Stockade were always chock full of Barracks Lawers.
It did go unnoticed.
Beating the system and then posting pics and bragging…
Cleary, he was never a member of The Lance Coolie Underground…if such an organization did exist.
I wonder if he is related to that young lady who openly bragged on tic tok about not paying taxes for a period of time among other things she was proud of getting away with. Will, at least up until such time somebody took notice.
The first rule of the Employment Fraud Club is that you don’t talk about the Employment Fraud Club.
The second rule of the Employment Fraud Club is to have Lori Benton’s phone number in your contacts list.
I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of such an organization in the Marine Corps.
I can, however, assure you that, if such an organization did exist, it would *frown* upon such bragging, as doing so might warrant unwanted attention.
This is some Phil Monkress-level shit here.
Don’t think he’s going to like the bar’s on his next trip as much as the last one.
Retired after nine years, bet there is some fake medical condition too. Worked 2 jobs while on active duty, someone needs to look long and hard at the leadership at that duty station.
Too long, didn’t read.
So, do airlines give free flights to veterans?
Who are the veterans getting these flights?
Because I have never got anything for free in my damn life.
Maybe I am playing the game of life on a hard setting?
He got the free flights as a perk of his fraudulent employment at airline 1 not due to his military service or veterans status. At least that’s what I understand.
It’s crazy, if the article’s correct then he got free flights just for a week of actual work. It’s a cool little perk, both my brother and sister in law work for a major airline and other family members (besides the employees themselves) can ride for free if there’s seats available.
I had a brief summer employment during my college years with Eastern Airlines from June through August 1986. I could get discounted tickets after the first month (Less than 50% off) and I didn’t work there long enough to qualify for free flights (which if memory serves was either 4 months or 6 months employment). I don’t know if policies have changed, but my understanding was at the time that policy was pretty standard across the industry.
What duty station is in Long Island, New York?
Likely the reserve training center out near Roosevelt Field Mall. My father took me there a few times for Marine Corps Leage business when I was growing up in Queens.
Before air marshals started, our Brink’s air couriors used to carry concealed aboard the flights. Most pilots knew the guys and no one execept the pilots knew that they were armed. Back in the early 70’s if I remember, a hijacker tried hijacking the American Airlines aircraft and our courior was onboard ond shot the hijacker then all of a sudden, our couriors had to give the pilot his gun when he boarded. they boarded from the tarmac instead of the regular way through the x-ray machines. American Airlines gave our courior a thousand bucks plus free flying when he wasn’t working. An Air Marshal program was started but it didn’t make it till years later when it started again. The Bulova watch company and watch school with the big clock on the roof was across the street from La Guadia Airport and was the training center for the new Air Marshall program. I watched movers hauling airplane seats up to the 3rd floor and they were set up like the inside of an airplane. Got friendly with a couple of the students and they told me that they practiced shooting technicks using training ammo. A sprinklered blockhouse was next to the freeight elevator wher the ammo was stored. We used to see them outside in shorts and tees running like they were in the military. we had one of the large jewelery companies in the building which we used to pick up and deliver products to every day. My mind just went blank and can’t remember the company.
That guy. They interviewed him after 9/11.
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2001/09/30/decades-old-twa-hijacking-still-fresh-in-mind-of-retiree/
Good find. Didn’t know there were 1600 attacks on commercial aviation between 1967 and 1986.
I would have expected governments and airlines to have taken the threat seriously long before the 9/11.
5JC;
Just checked laundry in the dryer and headed over to add to my comment about our courior whom I forgot his first name and remembered Dinesco and Bobby popped up and I just saw your comment. I remember Bobby telling me while we were getting materal bagged up to go out to the airport that after he left the military, he did some Mercenary work in Africa for a short time. He did most of his flying to S. Africa’s JoBerg we called it (Johanisberg) for picking up Krugerands before we didn’t let them in the states and diamonds. I should look him up. Every time we picked him up to take him out to his flight or coming back, he always had this cologne on him that smelled like a French whore we used to tell him.
I just googled Bobby and saw that he passed on at age 72, born in 1937. Didn’t know he lived on the west coast of Florida while I am on the east coast.
So, in all that time, Airline-1 never noticed that the guy who was supposed to be deployed overseas was flying multiple times on Airline-1’s flights?
Marshalls used to tell us that they had to dress while flying so everone on the plane could make them. They used to ask their boss about dressing up like the passengers so they wouldn’t look like air Marshalls. I wonder if there training center is still in Astoria Queens nyc
Nowadays they could be crossdressing and “strapped”.
Asked to comment, a tear rolled down the cheek of Phil Monkress as he stated “This guy… this guy is definitely All Points Logistics material.”
Probably took a few flight down to All-Points Logistics.
At least when you fly commercial it’s a good bet the plane’s fully fueled.
Nine year retirement? I wonder what other rackets this dummy had going on.
So this guy managed to acquire and hold down not one, but two additional part-time(?) jobs at the same time while on active duty? And his unit didn’t know this? And extensive foreign travel?
In 8 months in 2022;
“Out of the 13 countries I’ve visited so far this year”
That’s 13 countries in 8 months.
Well, at least he wasn’t discussing it on Signal.
Yet another one!
“Dior Jay-Jarrett…”
I don’t even have to ask if this guy is pigment enriched.