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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nAbout two years ago we wrote about Anthony Magsam<\/a> who was pretending to be a Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant and an Iraq War veteran in Philadelphia. He wore a pretty little motorcycle vest with a Combat Infantryman Badge and a Bronze Star, but the NPRC says that he had no service;<\/p>\n He had been a Philly cop until it was discovered that he stole weapons parts<\/a> from the police department. He was subsequently fired, but otherwise, unpunished. Hack Stone sends us the news that he was finally arrested yesterday<\/a>, after about seven years since the theft was discovered.<\/p>\n Anthony Magsam’s arrest on charges of theft, receiving stolen property, and obstruction of administrative law came one week after his former commander, Lt. Vincent J. Testa, committed suicide prior to a scheduled meeting with prosecutors about the case.<\/p>\n Magsam, 35, was released from custody Wednesday following an arraignment. Attempts to reach him for comment late Wednesday were not successful. No lawyer was listed on his initial charging document.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Magsam doesn’t like the picture at the top of this post – he complained to a previous service provider that it was copyrighted so we lost the blog for a day while our lawyers straightened the problem out with the provider. We enjoy this extra ration of karma that he’s catching these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" About two years ago we wrote about Anthony Magsam who was pretending to be a Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant and an Iraq War veteran in Philadelphia. He wore a pretty little motorcycle vest with a Combat Infantryman Badge and a Bronze Star, but the NPRC says that he had no service; He had been a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phony-soldiers","category-valorvultures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Magsam-speed-racer.jpg?fit=302%2C401&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-gYx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Magsam](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Magsam-FOIA1-299x333.jpg?resize=299%2C333\")
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