{"id":11566,"date":"2009-06-11T16:15:27","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T21:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=11566"},"modified":"2009-06-11T16:15:27","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T21:15:27","slug":"azs-phony-marine-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11566","title":{"rendered":"AZ&#8217;s phony Marine arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning <a href=\"http:\/\/tcoverride.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/have-you-seen-this-fake-marine.html\">Code Monkey<\/a> dropped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11253&amp;cpage=1#comment-103457\">word that phony<\/a> Marine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11253\">John W. Rodriguez<\/a> was arrested yesterday. I confirmed that with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11253#comment-102772\">Detective Watson who had stopped by last week<\/a> to ask for tips as to his whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Watson expressed his gratitude for the tipsters whose messages I forwarded to his office. I put off announcing Rodriguez&#8217; arrest waiting for a press release that I haven&#8217;t seen yet, but some of our readers are getting antsy and I&#8217;m getting about a tip an hour about Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>The latest was an article about the arrest from Scott who says he&#8217;s been reading us for a month or so now. Here&#8217;s part of the article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/news\/articles\/2009\/06\/11\/20090611militaryimpersonation11-ON.html\" target=\"_blank\">AZ Central<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DPS Detective Roger Wilson said it was unclear why Rodriguez was posing as a war hero, but that he got discounts on airline tickets, didn&#8217;t have to change the registration on his car from California to Arizona and made friends by introducing himself as a Marine.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson said Rodriguez, who is unemployed, had been living in the suburban Phoenix home of a man he met on a flight to Phoenix for two months without paying for his stay.<\/p>\n<p>He also said Rodriguez cited an upcoming deployment to Iraq to get a court hearing on a drunken-driving charge postponed.<\/p>\n<p>DPS officials arrested Rodriguez after he got off a flight from Sacramento, Calif. They found Marine uniforms, a medal and ribbons representing the Navy Cross and the Silver Star at the Phoenix home. Authorities did not know how he obtained the ribbons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looks like he&#8217;s going to be wearing those pink overalls and eating cheese sandwiches at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcso.org\/index.php?a=GetModule&amp;mn=Sheriff_Bio\">Sheriff Joe Arpaio<\/a>&#8216;s jail for a long time;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/photobucket.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i8.photobucket.com\/albums\/a1\/jlilyea\/Rodriguez.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who kept us updated on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning Code Monkey dropped word that phony Marine John W. Rodriguez was arrested yesterday. I &hellip; <a title=\"AZ&#8217;s phony Marine arrested\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11566\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AZ&#8217;s phony Marine arrested<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11566","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}