Fort Carson soldiers arrested for plotting with Zetas
SnafuDude sends us a link to Military.com which reports that two Fort Carson soldiers were arrested for selling weapons to and offering to train Mexican drug cartel members;
Sgt. Samuel Walker and former Lt. Kevin Corley believed they were meeting with members of the Zetas drug cartel last weekend in Texas, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Instead, they were dealing with undercover federal agents who arrested the men along with another man, Shavar Davis, on Saturday in Laredo. A third suspect, Corley’s cousin Jerome Corley, was fatally shot during the arrests.
According to AKO, both soldiers are infantrymen in 4 Infantry Division’s 2d Battalion, 12th Infantry. They should have been suspicious when the undercover agents wanted weapons when, if they were real drug smugglers, they can just get their weapons from the BATFE.
I had a squad leader in the 82d who went to work for the S-4 shop and got arrested, along with his LT, after I left the Division for trying to sell Claymore mines and LAW anti-armor weapons to undercover agents posing as white supremacists. If I remember correctly they got twelve years each in the Federal-Pound-Me-In-The-Ass Prison.
I have no idea what goes through these people’s minds. I guess they read too many books about mercenaries. If they can read. And you’d think a First Lieutenant would pipe up at some point and say “Buck Sergeant, this might get us thrown in jail, ya know. Maybe we shouldn’t do it.”
It might turn out that they caught the PTSD.
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At first I thought you meant Zetas the sorority…I think that would make a better gun running story.
“And you’d think a First Lieutenant would pipe up at some point and say….”
No. Sadly…I wouldn’t…
If I remember correctly the 82nd opened up a AAE shop outside one of the gates mid 80’s.
Blowback required us to inventory and turn in anything related to AAE, Ammo cans, old grenade pins, pallets it came on, etc.
My BC had a pin mounted on a plaque, center of his desk from a grenade that saved his life in Vietnam.
BDE Commander came in personally to tell him to turn it in…
That was not the worst part.
FLW had it’s own quarry operation.
2LT’s were tasked (rotating duty roster) to overwatch filling the holes and firing procedure.
I got the job right after the AAE directive came down.
I was supposed to search and consficate all flamables from the quarry folks before they could begin work.
I took one look at them (all senior NCO’s) and said. “You have been doing this your whole career, I just got here. I will try to stay out of your way.” They did let me pack holes and do some neat stuff with the extra det cord.
No issues.
Hotel1
Out.
TSO has to drop everything and take this case.
All he has to do is spin it that the LT and SGT were running their own version of Fast and Furious.
No…it should have been the Sgt saying:”LT, I think this is a bad idea.” Greed will often make stupid people do dumb retarded shit.
You’d think the SERGEANT would say, “Um . . . Ell-Tee, you know we can go to prison for this kind of thing, right?
@1
I think I have that movie in my Netflix queue.
I tried to sell my tanks as a platoon leader at Riley….didn’t work. I also threatened to go to work for the cartels if my branch manager didn’t get me out of FT Bliss…that worked ok. These guys are retards.
I don’t even know the right word to use!? I can see the Lt., he’s not even an adult yet but a SGT?!?
C’mon, Yat Yas. When that yellow stain’s been rubbed off the bar, so have the excuses. FIRST Lieutenants are expected to at least know their ass from a hole in the ground, and to have developed a little common sense.
This guy, on the other hand, . . . well, let’s just say he’s living proof that there’s 10% who could f-up a wet dream.
Damn, different machine got me again. Got to figure out how to save state info for this site on this machine w/o opening the doors to all other sites that want to store crap.
Isn’t our little douchetroll Spliffy claiming to be out of Ft. Carson?
This is one case where I could actually wish for karma to catch up with a dumbass.
Damn!
After all the shit that’s been going on, anyone paying half an attention with one brain cell to rub together should be able to smell a FiBbIe (FBI) entrapment from the get-go.
Anyone who comes up to you and starts a conversation with, “I want (insert illegal item/substance here)”, deserves to be soundly kicked in the nuts, tossed to the gutter, then have the police called on them for littering and entrapment.
Well, as Forrest Gump would say, “Stupid is as stupid does.”
Walker was in my company in the Korengal. His platoon was up at OP Restrepo. After the tour he got in trouble for all around shitbaggery every couple months. That lieutenant seemed solid when I first met him. In fact, he finished the EIB ruck march about a minute behind me and passed out after crossing the finish line, so I figured him to be a hard charger dedicated to the mission. I guess I was wrong, though.