{"id":31923,"date":"2012-09-07T10:06:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T14:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31923"},"modified":"2012-09-07T10:39:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T14:39:18","slug":"stupidest-smuggler-ring-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31923","title":{"rendered":"Stupidest smuggler ring busted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/09\/06\/us-usa-weapons-china-idUSBRE8851AY20120906\">Reuters<\/a> reports that former staff sergeant Joseph Debose, supposedly a member of a National Guard Special Forces unit, pleaded guilty to charges of trying to smuggle 13 weapons to China in North Carolina yesterday;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to court documents, Debose provided multiple shipments of firearms to co-conspirators who then hid the weapons in packages and transported them to shipping companies to be sent to customers in China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In blatant disregard for everything he was sworn to uphold, the defendant placed numerous firearms into a black market pipeline from the United States to China,&#8221; said Loretta Lynch, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First of all, why would 13 weapons in China be so important to risk arrest? There are 1.3 billion people in China, that&#8217;s one weapon for every hundred million people. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The scheme came to light when local law enforcement officials in China seized a package containing firearms concealed in speaker casings, court records show. The weapons, whose serial numbers had been defaced, had been sent from Queens, New York, and were later traced back to Debose, according to the complaint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, so he was trying to arm a group of rebels which makes more sense, but, I&#8217;ve heard from people who&#8217;ve been to China that you can feel eyes on you everywhere while you&#8217;re there, so how did he think he wouldn&#8217;t be caught?<\/p>\n<p>And to the journalist who wrote the piece, guns aren&#8217;t people, so you really can&#8217;t use the phrase &#8220;The weapons, <strong>whose<\/strong> serial numbers had been defaced&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters reports that former staff sergeant Joseph Debose, supposedly a member of a National Guard Special &hellip; <a title=\"Stupidest smuggler ring busted\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31923\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stupidest smuggler ring busted<\/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":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31923","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=31923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}