David DeMulle; phony Vietnam veteran sentenced
Almost three years ago we wrote about David DeMulle, a fellow posing as a Vietnam veteran in Sunland-Tujunga, California. He self-published a local newspaper called “The Foothills Paper” in which he spread tales of his derring-do.
It seems that in 2015, he solicited his readers to sell him their firearms which he claimed that he would resell and use the money to get aid to Haiti earthquake victims. DeMulle claimed that he had a federal firearms license so the transactions would be legal. Yeah, no, he is a felon prohibited from handling a firearm.
According to the LA Daily News, two law enforcement officers saw his ad for the proposed aid, so they sold him two weapons and then got a warrant to search his home where they found twenty-three other guns and over a thousand POUNDS of ammunition.
DeMulle bought the ammunition from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department;
The court filings also allege that in 2002 DeMulle purchased thousands of rounds of surplus small-arms ammunition from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. He won a bid through his company, the Organization for Strategic Studies, and the ammunition was sold to him.
Federal prosecutors said after an investigation, it was found that there was no evidence a background check was done and that the Sheriff’s Department “mistakenly” handed over ammunition to DeMulle.
Well, the upshot is that DeMulle, the 75-year-old valor thief, was sentenced to 41 months in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition last month, after pleading guilty late last year. Because stolen valor is just a symptom of wider criminal behavior;
The LA Times asked him for a comment;
“What do you want to know other than I was railroaded by a biased judge and a corrupt” prosecutor, DeMulle wrote in response to an email seeking comment.
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
Fa’kheem. True justice would be that he never sees the outside of a jail again.
Railroaded?
Wasn’t he driving that train? Or did I miss something in the translation?
Must have been high on cocaine.
Nice Dead Head reference.
Drivin’ that train, headin’ for pain
Dave DeMulle you better watch your back
Prison ahead, trial behind
And we know “lost freedom” just crossed your mind
David DeMulle – BUSTED!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
David DeMulle must believe his own lies – or that he can lie himself out of accountability for his lies.
One more in the harem of Bubba & Thor.
Don’t forget Tiny. 😅
And you both forgot Julio!
Hmm…it is “derring-do” and not “daring-do”. Now, if I can just get a grip on “your”, “you are” and “you’re”.
I looked up Yor, all I get is some guy from Warcraft but I think it is actually a place. It might be some mystical land where the Lilyea clan came from.
Nobody seems to know where that string of DNA came from. Not sure its even a branch, maybe some kind of twig fallen from who knows what branch.
In any event, this guy will have more ventures of “derring-do” in his future.
Just don’t confuse Yor and Yore.
Ahhhh, and so it is. So the Lilyea Clan IS from a land of Yore. Hmm…
Allow me to clear things up, if I may.
‘Daring-do’ is short for ‘daring to do’, and may apply to Sneaky Pete behavior as well as bad hairdos.
Yor and Yore – well, Yor the summmoned boss is only summoned in the Heroic mode. ‘Yore’ is derived from the Land of Days of Yore, when men were men and women were glad of it, and no one thought kittens were anything but cute.
Yor: mythical prehistoric cannibal warrior.
“Yor eat meat of enemies, make Yor strong!”
Him choking on a washcloth gag in the prison shower while being sodomized by the Mexican Mafia seems appropriately “derring” to me…
“Hmm…it is “derring-do” and not “daring-do”.”
THANK YOU!! That mistake drives me nuts every time I see it. Another one is “one in the same” instead of “one AND the same”.
1000 pounds of ammo? Here in Texas that is a “good start”.
Yep, pretty much.
Or a “short day at the range.”
Thank God for biased judges and corrupt prosecutors, without them none of these lying assholes would ever go to jail.
He could have gotten over a hundred years for the guns alone if he was sentenced to consecutive terms. Five years per count is not out of line. I believe he could also get five years per round of ammo if the judge feels bad that day.
Never thought I would see California gun laws used to serve justice.
Loser.
“What do you want to know other than I was railroaded by a biased judge and a corrupt” prosecutor, DeMulle wrote in response to an email seeking comment.
Translation from Crminalese’ “It’s everyone else’s fault!”
LOL!! It was the bias judge and corrupt prosecutors fault-also how about his bs made up company OSS ? The OSS was the WW2 predecessor of The CIA -Ian Fleming served in the OSS and British Secret Service .Well after reading all these poser stories I went down to my local County VA SO and had him print all 3 of my DD214s-I have 3 because I was active Navy and when I joined the Guard I was deployed 2x to Iraq and each time you redeploy you receive a DD214.
That cap the guy is wearing is probably way before Viet Nam, or at least, it was way before I went into the Army.
My father wore that cap with his uniform at Fort Bragg, North Carolina when I was a boy.
I don’t know what kind of weapon he is holding, for I never saw it when I was in the United States Army.
Of course, I never trained with German troops, even though I was in Germany before I went to the old Republic of Viet Nam.
To me, it looks like a French Foreign Legion hat or something like that.
Can’t say for sure but I saw pics of DeGaulle wearing something like that in “Eisenhower the War Years, 1943-1945”.
I have seen a picture of Elvis wearing a cover like that, and the rifle looks like a G3.
50’s era US Army “Spring up Cap” made by the Louisville Cap Company.
After the war in Korea became a stalemate, orders were issued demanding that M-1951 caps and OG-107 Caps be pressed and starched and cardboard inserts or other stiffeners be used with the field cap to keep it straight and upright.
In 1953 this policy became official throughout the Army when Chief of Staff Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway began directing forces to improve their soldierly image. Commercial stiffened and blocked models of the field cap were produced with a “coffee can” shape that met military appearance standards. Ridgeway’s leadership on the issue came to be associated with the headgear, hence the name “Ridgeway Cap.” The preferred model was the “Spring-Up” manufactured by Louisville Cap Corp. that was sold for $2.00 at the PX. Their ads for the cap had the caption, “The fatigue cap that never shows fatigue.”
The M1951 Field Cap.
http://olive-drab.com/od_soldiers_clothing_m1951_cap_field.php
I loved that thing. Best headgear the Army ever had.
I would have loved to hear how he said that comment about being railroaded. probably looked like a Batshit insane kook.
Moonbeam will probably pardon him.
I doubt that; I understand Brown’s quite the anti-gun Lib. But being the “Kind, gentle liberal” that he is, Brown commuting his sentence to time served (because of this dirtbag’s “advanced age”) is IMO a realistic possibility.
To add insult, he’s a dues paying member of our local American Legion 377 in Tujunga, Ca.
First as a combat photographer, with SOG Pennsylvania or Philadelphia, on a day he can remember which he said. BUT now claiming a DOD Civilian Tech Rep.
The local American Legion Auxiliary gals Bonnie Corwin and Joan Slater promote and boast of his “documented” Vietnam Veteran service. He can’t produce a DD214 and has not one picture of his own in combat, but has used others who really actually served. (Great Photographer, eh)
Total joke and the Commander of 377 wants nothing to do with it all, but allows him to still be a member as it would be to much ch of a hassle to kick him out and verify his new DOD ID.
how is it too much hassle? Give him a deadline, if he doesn’t meet the deadline, kick him out. FFS….a veteran’s organization doesn’t have the leadership ability to sever their ties with an imposter? Lame
He doesn’t want the info.
oh, he has no leadership ability
Then go over his head (state or regional level)… then shitcan his ass for not taking care of business at his level.
We are. It’s going to state level. I’ll keep you posted.
He continues to flaunt the law and feels that he is above it. Continues to have a sticker on his jeep that says “proudly served”. He is appealing his sentencing (not the conviction because he plead guilty) and is currently out on bail harassing the town. Thankfully, an appeal can only last a year before he will be forced to serve his 41 months. Then, and only then will that sticker be telling the truth.