Matthew Thomas Deleo, former military police officer arrested for planned burglary
Mick sends us links to the story about Matthew Thomas Deleo who was a former Navy master-at-arms who developed a plan to burglarize Navy stocks of uniforms and sell those uniforms to foreigners;
Sweeney testified that Deleo had previously sold $145,000 worth of military equipment on Ebay to people living in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. When arrested, agents recovered communications a member of the group was having with a person in Russia.
According to Navy records, Deleo left the Navy in January 2013 after five years. He was last stationed in Virginia Beach with Coastal Riverine Squadron Two.
From another link;
Former military police officer Matthew Thomas Deleo was arrested near Yorktown, VA and charged with stealing authentic military uniforms and selling them to foreign countries. He used his status in the Navy Reserves to gain access to Naval Weapons Station Yorktown-Cheatham Annex and steal uniforms from its warehouses. He and three accomplices then sold the uniforms on Ebay to customers in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.
“That poses a great threat,” Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Alyssa Nichol said during Deleo’s arraignment. “This is very, very dangerous. It is a threat to national security and it is not an overstatement to say so.”
Apparently, their arrest was at the end of a drug-addled road trip;
From the witness stand Thursday in U.S. District Court, Naval Criminal Investigative Service Special Agent J. Sweeney recounted a drug-fueled trip from Rhode Island to Yorktown and that along the way the party stopped to buy heroin and cocaine. He said the group – led by Deleo – drove down Friday in a large pickup hauling an enclosed trailer. He said they stayed Friday and Saturday night in a cabin on the Annex.
Category: Crime
What an asshole.
A dumb shit for sure but on any given day anyone can purchase just about any US military item commercially, and those wanting to do harm usually do.
If stupidity could fly he’d be twice as fast as an SR71.
I keep telling people we need to put up a fence around Rhode Island and keep them there.
I bet that walking reject from the abortion bucket was so fucked up his Dad threw rocks at the stork when he was born. I’m sure I know what sign he was born under, Either “RED LIGHT DISTRICT” or “BUS STOP”!
When he was a kid, he was one of those who needed to be given a hair dryer and a radio for bath tub play toys. Would have made the world safer today!
If this cAcksucker was military police, I’m Howard f’ng Hughes
this,is flipping crazy about a month ago, I was up in Nevada and for about the third time in five years
they busted a bunch of waffles trying to sale military gear to the Air Forces version of CID and a few FBI agents.. absolutely amazing that anybody would do it after they just had two other bust
DAY-UM! Don’t throw his ass under the jail. CUt off his head and put it on a pike in the town square as an example to others.
They would have made more going to “Army-Navy” stores.
All “active” uniforms should be illegal to purchase as a civilian.
Bu what do I know. . .