Fort Campbell soldiers sell military surplus on the web
The New York Daily News reports that Michael Barlow, Jonathan Wolford, Kyle Heade, Alexander Hollibaugh, Dustin Nelson and Aaron Warner, Fort Campbell soldiers all, have been arrested for selling surplus items on Ebay to buyers in the United States as well as Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Lithuania, Moldova, Malaysia, Romania and Mexico.
The equipment was classified by the Defense Department as “DEMIL D,” meaning it is not allowed to be sold and is meant to be destroyed by the military.
The soldiers sold a sight for an M203 grenade launcher, as well as parts of M240 or M249 machine guns. They also offered body armor, night vision goggles and “sensitive communications equipment,” court papers say.
Two civilians, John Roberts and Cory Wilson, are also charged. Lucky for them they weren’t selling magazines for scary black rifles that had a greater capacity than ten rounds, or Ebay might have stopped them earlier.
“eBay worked collaboratively with law enforcement agencies, providing them with the information necessary to support their case,” eBay executives said in a statement. “eBay has clear policies on what can and can’t be listed across various categories, and we have dedicated teams that proactively and reactively remove listings that are not permitted to be sold on our marketplace.”
The article says that they sold more than a $1 million worth of stuff and they’re all looking at five years each for the scheme.
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At least they didn’t try to coerce any of their coworkers into starting an AMWAY franchise. No idea why my chain of command did not step in and stop the Sergeants from going into business with the Lance Corporals.
So….ebay is proactive in finding this stuff and getting rid of it….humm..but they sold a million dollars worth? sound proactive to you? sounds like ebay “reactive BULLSHYT” to me!!
IN my day it was smoke detectors…
In my day we didn’t have smoke detectors because fire hadn’t been invented yet.
We sat around in the dark and were GRATEFUL!
Get off my lawn you kids!
HEY! Don’t send them over here.
5 years? REALLY?
Shit that’s nothing.
But Hillary gave arms to recognized terrorist groups and still “walks” the streets….
It’s “at least” 5 years. It all depends on how they were charged. Usually, each transaction (i.e., each instance oftheft, sale, and attempted sale)is charged and then comes the deals, dropping all but one or two and recommending a sentence of no more than X.
Gear adrift is a gift!!!
Lol, good one!
I don’t know, 1 million for 5 years doesn’t seem to be too bad of a pay rate? I’m sure they won’t make them refund the money, so when they get out on parole in about 2 years with good behavior, they will be living large? I think I am in the wrong business? Maybe they ran their craigslist ads on Hitlery’s server? What difference does it make??
Split between 5 people is $200K each, or $40K a year to make up for the joys of pound-him-in-the-ass prison. Not enough…
DUMBFUCKS!! They need to do at least 20 years apiece, why the slap-on-the-wrist sentences, did they use the Hitlery Cankles defense, did they get a “Let ’em Loose Bruce” kind of Judge or a lazy Prosecutor?
$hit I have an M203 quadrant sight.
The punishment is not enough, IMHO.
$1M/8 = $125k each, if they don’t pay any fines. Now, if they had to reimburse and pay a fine and do time, perhaps.
Then beat them black and blue.
“Okay, we need a canary. Anyone willing to sing for a sweet deal? We need a snitch, a stoolie………..Dammit. Okay, everyone put your hands down. We’ll pick straws.”
Depends on if they valued the items sold based on what DOD paid for them instead of what they are worth as salvage items. Six toilet seats and a hammer might be worth $125k to the Army new, not so much at a Depot sale in a wholesale lot.
Could they just claim they accidentally deleted the e-mails of the intended recipients ala Hillary at Benghazi selling god knows what to the “rebels?”
They were far too lowkey in that operation. A mere $1 million? That is nothing! Nothing, I tell you! They should have bumped it up to around $10,000,000, minimum, because unless they were completely stooopid, they had a gold mine they could have milked. Amateurs!!!
DD and life
2016 – Sergeant Bilko lives on!!
I’d be willing to bet there are a few more rat bastards involved that will be ratted out by these rat bastards!
Sounds like something that happened in my old unit. We had a Police Sgt (actually he was a Corporal E-4) who had the units DRMO card. He also had access to al our cleaning gear, linen and had the keys to every room in the battery. Plus he had the keys to the gear storage areas when we deployed on ship.
Ends up he was stealing entire seabags worth of stuff from Marines when we were shipboard. He also woukld go to DRMO and take entire boxes of Code-H gear.
Hust a ballsy fuck. Would go in with fake forms and nobody asked shit. He stole Humvee tires and entire Tool Chests from the Motor Pool. He broke into the Base Cleaners, stole shitloads of uniforms then torched it, Did the same thing with the Office in Base reception, but with computers and printers.
He went as far as getting a Surplus White Van, restenciling Serial numbers on it, stealing plates off a broken down van and forging off base trip tickets.
He’s steal shit, and just drive right off the base with it to a storage unit.
He also was a big time Crystal Meth Dealer, and thats what got him busted. Some of the guys he sold to were also in cahoots with the motor pool theft. They got busted and turned on him.
CID had a fake buyer get a stolen generator off him, then they found all the stolen shit in storage ubits all over Vista and Oceanside.
Since he was turning his life around, he probably got a presidential pardon. If not yet, probably before this fool gets out of office.
I remember reading about that dude. The torching the dry cleaners was the big thing that I recall.
I had a guy in my unit that stole things for years, including a bunch of electronics from rooms in the barracks while the real Soldiers were at NTC. Any time there was a theft, he was in the vicinity, whether a TA50 layout behind the company or while he was on duty. He kept getting caught and the new charges added to the building court martial case. Just before I left the unit, his last adventure was to steal a HMMWV and drive it to CIF where he used it to ram in a big door and then go inside and steal something like 500 sets of MOLLE rifleman’s kits. Just because he is that kind of guy, he’d also taken his infant child and hit her head on a door frame at one point. The thefts were mostly to pay for his drug addiction. Couldn’t wait to get rid of that disaster.
Obviously some idiots do not know that “E-4 Mafia” is just a figure of speech.
We had a few shitbirds like that in my unit I ETS’ed out of, they were stealing and selling gear as well as doing B & E’s on downrange Pawn Shops. Their downfall began when a CID Office Secretary noticed one of those Rocket Surgeons with CUCV tires on his Dodge Dakota when he was using the BK drive through on post and once he got busted they had a rat-fest on each other. I never heard who got to prosecute them first because both the U.S. Army and the State of Georgia wanted a piece of each of them!