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| More details about Marines selling their body armor on Ebay |
| 2006-02-23 |
| Go read the whole thing, but key facts are that this case goes back to 2004; the civilian who sold the stuff on Ebay helped Homeland Security and the Navy make cases against the three civilians and twelve Marines involved (some of whom are now in Iraq, presumably without their body armor); and this appears to be several isolated individuals, not a criminal gang at Camp Pendleton. A Vista woman was sentenced to prison yesterday for buying from Camp Pendleton Marines stolen body armor meant for Iraq-bound troops, then selling it to undercover agents posing as foreign arms dealers. Erika Jardine, 47, was arrested in November 2004. Jardine pleaded guilty a year later in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia to charges of violating the Arms Control Export Act and selling stolen U.S. property, said Dean Boyd, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 I wuz hoping they were doing the time honored borrow from the Army routine. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-02-23 17:18 |