{"id":109338,"date":"2021-01-13T06:20:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T11:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=109338"},"modified":"2021-01-13T06:32:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T11:32:04","slug":"tucker-charged-with-stealing-from-wounded-warrior-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=109338","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Charged with Stealing from Wounded Warrior Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/william-travis-tucker.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-109339 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/william-travis-tucker-400x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/william-travis-tucker-400x333.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/william-travis-tucker-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/william-travis-tucker-768x640.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/william-travis-tucker.jpg 930w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>And the hits just keep on coming!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We previously posted about William Travis Tucker a couple of times last month.\u00a0 He was charged with stolen valor for claiming to have been awarded a Purple Heart, Silver Star as well as claimed to have been a P.O.W. &#8211; we posted about that here on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dec 2, 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then, days later he had additional charges.\u00a0 A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waaytv.com\/content\/video\/573297031.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> surfaced of Tucker making his wild claims while he solicits money. We posted about this on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107889\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dec 5, 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The story doesn&#8217;t end there.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/whnt.com\/news\/shoals\/shoals-man-previously-charged-with-stolen-valor-now-charged-with-stealing-from-wounded-warrior-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WHNT Channel 19 reports<\/a> yesterday that Tucker is now charged with stealing money from the Wounded Warrior Project.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"article-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whnt.com\/news\/shoals\/shoals-man-previously-charged-with-stolen-valor-now-charged-with-stealing-from-wounded-warrior-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Shoals man previously charged with stolen valor now charged with stealing from Wounded Warrior Project<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>January 12, 2021<\/p>\n<p>COLBERT COUNTY, Ala. \u2013 One Shoals man faces additional charges.<\/p>\n<p>A Colbert County grand jury indicted William Travis Tucker Monday on a charge of first-degree theft.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents show that Tucker stole $3,000 from the Wounded Warrior Project in May 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Tucker was previously arrested in December and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/whnt.com\/news\/shoals\/shoals-man-charged-with-stolen-valor-and-forgery\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/whnt.com\/news\/shoals\/shoals-man-charged-with-stolen-valor-and-forgery\/\">charged with stolen valor<\/a>\u00a0after pretending to be a prisoner of war.<\/p>\n<p>Sheffield Police Lt. Ray Terry told News 19 the discovery was made when Tucker attempted to use forged documents to obtain POW license plates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waaytv.com\/content\/news\/Shoals-man-charged-with-stolen-valor-now-accused-of-stealing-from-Wounded-Warriors-573578081.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WAAY Channel 13 ABC<\/a> also carried the same story.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.waaytv.com\/content\/news\/Shoals-man-charged-with-stolen-valor-now-accused-of-stealing-from-Wounded-Warriors-573578081.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shoals Man Charged with Stolen Valor Now Accused of Stealing from Wounded Warriors<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>He first was charged with other crimes in December<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"row mb-4\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-6\">\n<p class=\"article-summary lead\">Jan 12, 2021 &#8211; Breken Terry, Josh Rayburn<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-summary lead\">A Shoals man charged with stolen valor in Colbert and Lauderdale counties now faces charges of stealing from Wounded Warriors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-summary lead\">A Colbert County grand jury indicted William Travis Tucker with theft of property from the Wounded Warriors Project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-summary lead\">This Jan. 6 indictment is related to a Jeep rally where authorities say about $3,000 was raised for, but never given to, Wounded Warriors Project. (Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waaytv.com\/content\/news\/Video-shows-Shoals-man-charged-twice-with-stolen-valor-talking-about-his-fake-POW-experience-573298121.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-summary lead\">Tucker was first arrested on stolen valor and other charges in December after authorities say he lied about being a prisoner of war so he could get free license plate tags for his vehicles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the hits just keep on coming! We previously posted about William Travis Tucker a couple &hellip; <a title=\"Tucker Charged with Stealing from Wounded Warrior Project\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=109338\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tucker Charged with Stealing from Wounded Warrior Project<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":109343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,461,462,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pow","category-purple-heart","category-silver-star","category-stolen-valor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109347,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109338\/revisions\/109347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}