Category: Phony soldiers

According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, valor thief Shane Ladner will get no jail time for lying on his application for employment with the Cherokee County, Georgia Sheriff’s Department, for providing forged government documents for his Purple Heart license plates and for providing forged government documents as evidence in the court case against him.

A former Holly Springs police officer who lied about being a Purple Heart recipient to get free license plates was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years on probation while avoiding jail time.

Shane Ladner must also perform 600 hours of community service and pay $6,000 in restitution to Cherokee County, District Attorney Shannon Wallace told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an email. Ladner was sentenced as a first offender.

A jury convicted Ladner on May 28 of five counts of making false statements and one count of theft by taking after he claimed he earned the medal, awarded for combat wounds, when he was injured in Panama in 1989 during the operation to capture President Manuel Noriega, The AJC previously reported. He was found not guilty on one theft charge.

Ladner also tried to sue Atlanta’s Fox 5 because they exposed his lies. They won the case last year, with a little help from TAH and our expert staff, but obviously, the judge didn’t think that trying to pull the wool over the court’s eyes is anything to be upset about.

Ladner and his lawyer made up stories about his secret Purple Heart and claimed the orders and citation were stored at Fort Benning, Georgia and in a Panamanian cancer hospital, but not at the NPRC in Missouri.

So, the most arrestable phony in the history of the United States, Kyle Barwan is in custody once again. He was supposed to remain under the stern gaze of his parole officer in Polk County, Florida, where he was most recently confined for using his phony military persona to scrounge money from unsuspecting and well-meaning patriots. But he left Florida for cooler climes, and then he was back to his old habits. Until….

I guess he was up to his old tricks and someone complained so the the local Ayer, Mass. PD picked him up on the Florida warrant on September 29th.

Last month we talked a bit about Jose Rolon when Don Shipley busted him for telling lies about his Navy service for no real purpose than to fill a hole in his heart – the charity says that they would have helped him anyway, even if he wasn’t a SEAL or wounded in combat.

Well, we got his FOIA just to do the paperwork;

He spent six years on active duty in the Navy and two years in the Navy Reserves as an Aviation Ordanceman 2 Class (E-5) and stationed at Guantanamo and NAS Norfolk. But no, no SEAL training. The Citrus County Chronicle also reported that he claimed a Purple Heart for wounds, but npoe, no wounds, no time in combat – he was in Norfolk for Desert Storm and Somalia and Guantanamo for Just Cause.

If he engaged in combat it was in Pinellas County lockup.

Our partners at Military Phonies share their work on this fellow Frank Roberto who wrestles professionally under the name Frankie Starz. He claims that he served in Marine Recon units and with the elite ANGLICO (Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company).

He claims these awards, including the Combat Action Ribbon and, of course, jump wings;

Even in conversations on social media;

But, the National Personnel Records Center disagrees;

He served a little over two-and-a-half years, he earned the Southwest Asia Service Medal (with one service star, not the two stars that he has on his ribbon in the picture above) because he was in Kuwait after Desert Storm for some reason, so, no, there’s no Combat Action Ribbon.

And, oh, he went AWOL for a couple of days which eventually led to some corrective custody time and probably resulted in his early discharge. But, there’s no record of him being assigned to a Recon unit or ANGLICO, there’s no airborne training – everyone wants to wear the wings, no one wants to lug the parachute off the Drop Zone.

I guess all of these entertainers went AWOL while they were punching their tickets in the Marines.

This scroungy-looking grotesque turd, Paul Knox, we busted over three years ago, but the folks at Military Phonies says he’s still at it. He claims that he was a Navy SEAL from 1969 – 1975 and of course, he was injured in Vietnam.

Yep. Two Purple Hearts and a Navy Cross and senior chief petty officer chevrons on his fat ass. All that was accomplished in 29 days;

Yep, he spent 29 days in the Navy and left as an E-1.

By the way, he was born in 1957, so he’s claiming that he went to Vietnam when he was 12 years old. That damned math thing again.

Our partners at Military Phonies share their work on Christophe Hoel who claims to be a Navy SEAL, of course, there’s a vest, and the SEAL Trident is sown on the back down at the bottom;

Yeah, no. He got out of the Navy after less than two-and-a-half years as a Fireman Apprentice (E-2). No BUD/S training, no SEAL assignments;