{"id":20733,"date":"2010-10-06T07:01:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T11:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20733"},"modified":"2010-10-06T07:07:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T11:07:15","slug":"john-w-rodriguez-gets-7-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20733","title":{"rendered":"John W. Rodriguez gets 7 1\/2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some of you may remember John W. Rodriguez<\/a>, the phony Marine in Arizona. Yesterday, he found guilty on 12 counts of forgery, fraudulent schemes and presentation of a false instrument for filing. For this he earned seven and a half years in an Arizona gray bar hotel. It also got him four years of probation tacked on to the end of his sentence.<\/p>\n

Here’s the story of how he was busted from AZCentral<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Dan Ryan, a former Marine and FBI agent, first came in contact with Rodriguez at a Republican committee meeting in 2008. He noticed Rodriguez wearing a service uniform with some of the military branch’s highest honors, including the Navy Cross.
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\nRyan decided to look into Rodriguez’s background. After doing some research, Ryan alerted investigators at the Arizona Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n

A search of Department of the Navy and Department of Defense records found that Rodriguez never served in any branch of the military.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The video report;<\/p>\n

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So you phonies had better be careful about who is checking you out…it might be the FBI.<\/p>\n

According to the article, Rodriguez not only fooled civilians, he fooled the local Marine Reserve unit with which he trained at times. He also had an ID card that allowed him into military bases across the southwest US. The FBI began to treat Rodriguez like a domestic terrorism case.<\/p>\n

This Ain’t Hell takes pride in the small part we played in this outcome. With our wide readership, we were able to connect an informant with the Arizona law enforcement community which helped with Rodriguez’ initial arrest. We’d also like to thank the lead detective for keeping us abreast of developments in the case, lo these many months.<\/p>\n

And thanks to ROS, Southern Class and Azygos for mailing the links last night. And to Code Monkey at TC Override<\/a> for the initial post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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