{"id":21097,"date":"2010-11-07T10:03:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T14:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21097"},"modified":"2010-11-07T10:03:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T14:03:11","slug":"serial-phony-marine-de-hieu-tran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21097","title":{"rendered":"Serial Phony Marine; De Hieu Tran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/De-Hieu-Tran.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21098 aligncenter\" title=\"De Hieu Tran\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/De-Hieu-Tran.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/De-Hieu-Tran.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/De-Hieu-Tran-275x300.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last March, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17967\">I wrote a bit about De Hieu Tran<\/a>, a guy who was busted wearing a Marine uniform in Fernsdale, MI. Well, it looks like he&#8217;s a serial phony. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/grand-rapids\/index.ssf\/2010\/11\/man_accused_of_impersonating_m.html\">UpNorth sends us a link<\/a> from, well&#8230;up north, where Tran has expanded his repertoire of personae to an immigration officer and scamming fellow Vietnamese;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Officer Mike Koval, of the Kentwood Police Department, investigated complaints that Tran impersonated a Marine Corps officer and an agent for U.S. Immigration and Customs, Karl Vliestra, a senior special agent for the Department of Homeland Security, wrote in a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to Officer Koval, Tran had reportedly been receiving large cash payments from several Vietnamese nationals in the Kentwood area in return for promises that he would help them with their immigration paperwork and would expedite their becoming naturalized United States citizens,&#8221; Vliestra wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Kentwood police arrested Tran on Aug. 12 after setting up a sting at a Vietnamese restaurant on South Division Avenue. Police said a woman who worked at the restaurant handed Tran an envelope containing $2,000 in return for his help getting her cousin into the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The 42-year-old is also charged with wearing a Purple Heart.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps this time, judges ought to take him out of circulation for a few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last March, I wrote a bit about De Hieu Tran, a guy who was busted wearing &hellip; <a title=\"Serial Phony Marine; De Hieu Tran\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21097\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Serial Phony Marine; De Hieu Tran<\/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-21097","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\/21097","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=21097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}