{"id":144849,"date":"2023-07-23T13:18:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T17:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=144849"},"modified":"2023-07-23T13:26:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T17:26:21","slug":"real-fake-military-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=144849","title":{"rendered":"Real Fake Military Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/david-durand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-144851\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/david-durand-254x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/david-durand-254x333.jpg 254w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/david-durand-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/david-durand.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, here&#8217;s a new twist. Try and follow this one if you&#8217;re feeling brave&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ohio police pull over a man that flashes an Oregon driver&#8217;s license. Photo doesn&#8217;t match. Driver can&#8217;t remember Social Security number because of that brain injury sustained while in the military. Wasn&#8217;t in the military, but was he?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peakofohio.com\/local-news\/police-sniff-out-fake-id-on-mechanicsburg-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Police sniff out fake ID on Mechanicsburg man<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby News Room | Thu July 20, 2023<\/p>\n<p>Bellefontaine Police initiated a traffic stop Wednesday morning when a car ran a red light at the intersection of Main Street and Columbus Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle pulled over in the Walgreens parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>The driver told police he had a yellow light and handed him an Oregon driver\u2019s license with the name Jeffrey Scott.<\/p>\n<p>The officer noticed the photo on the license and physical identifiers did not match the driver.<\/p>\n<p>The driver insisted he was Jeffrey Scott and couldn\u2019t provide his social security number because he did not know it since he suffered a traumatic brain injury while serving in the military.<\/p>\n<p>The information on the driver\u2019s license revealed that Jeffrey Scott was not a military veteran.<\/p>\n<p>Additional officers were called to the scene, including the K-9 unit.<\/p>\n<p>The driver admitted to lying and producing a fraudulent driver\u2019s license. He then told police he was David Durand from Mechanicsburg. Durand said he lied because he believed he was wanted in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed his identity and discovered he was driving without a license and he was not wanted in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Durand also admitted to having multiple joints and marijuana paraphernalia in the car.<\/p>\n<p>A probable cause search found 4 marijuana joints, two baggies of marijuana, three packages of marijuana from a dispensary, two containers of suspected THC wax, and marijuana paraphernalia.<\/p>\n<p>David Durand was arrested and lodged in the Logan County Jail on charges of identity fraud, furnishing false information during a traffic offense, marijuana drug paraphernalia, possession of drugs (marijuana), no operator\u2019s license, failure to reinstate, and red light violation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/durand-dodmanpower-redacted.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-144852\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/durand-dodmanpower-redacted-257x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/durand-dodmanpower-redacted-257x333.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/durand-dodmanpower-redacted-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/durand-dodmanpower-redacted-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/durand-dodmanpower-redacted-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/durand-dodmanpower-redacted-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/durand-dodmanpower-redacted.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, David Durand *was* in the military, but his fake persona Jeffrey Scott *wasn&#8217;t*.<\/p>\n<p>Is this stolen valor?\u00a0 We may need a ruling from the TAH \/ VG community. My head hurts. Maybe as much as David Durand&#8217;s does.<\/p>\n<p>The struggle is real.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_144853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144853\" style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/vine.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-144853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/vine-255x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/vine-255x333.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/vine-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/vine-768x1001.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/vine-1178x1536.jpg 1178w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/vine.jpg 1519w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOURCE: <a href=\"https:\/\/vinelink.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/vinelink.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, here&#8217;s a new twist. Try and follow this one if you&#8217;re feeling brave&#8230; Ohio police &hellip; <a title=\"Real Fake Military Service\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=144849\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Real Fake Military Service<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":144854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393,391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navyposer","category-valorvultures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144849","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=144849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}