{"id":29559,"date":"2012-04-18T06:35:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T10:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29559"},"modified":"2012-04-18T06:35:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T10:35:47","slug":"skyler-whalen-phony-marine-becomes-phony-cop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29559","title":{"rendered":"Skyler Whalen, phony Marine becomes phony cop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Skyler-Whalen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Skyler-Whalen-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"skyler whalen\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Skyler-Whalen-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Skyler-Whalen.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>James sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2012\/04\/marine-wannabe-skyler-whalen-cop-accusation-041412w\/\">Marine Corps Times&#8217;<\/a> Gina Cavallaro reportage of the arrest of Skyler Whalen, who<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22227\"> we discussed over a year ago<\/a> when he was pretending to be a Gunnery Sergeant. Now it seems that he is pretending to be a police officer, and the cops aren&#8217;t amused;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An off-duty police officer caught Whalen wearing a badge, ballistic vest, handcuffs, radio and gun. Whalen said he was responding to a 911 emergency hang-up call. His fakery was clear, according to the police report.<\/p>\n<p>Whalen fled in his Ford Explorer, then was stopped and taken into custody after admitting he was posing as a cop, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>In his vehicle, police found the law enforcement gear, including a rifle and police department business cards with his name on them, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>A passenger told Kingman police he believed he was on a real \u201cpolice ride-along\u201d with Whalen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So do you think he&#8217;s finally learned his lesson? Well, according to his neighbors, when the police released Whalen, he went home and they saw him leaving in a Marine uniform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James sends us a link to the Marine Corps Times&#8217; Gina Cavallaro reportage of the arrest &hellip; <a title=\"Skyler Whalen, phony Marine becomes phony cop\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29559\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skyler Whalen, phony Marine becomes phony cop<\/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-29559","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\/29559","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=29559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}