{"id":33308,"date":"2012-12-19T19:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T23:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33308"},"modified":"2012-12-19T19:02:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T23:02:29","slug":"phony-marinecop-skyler-whalen-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33308","title":{"rendered":"Phony Marine\/Cop Skyler Whalen sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We first ran into Gunny Skyler Whalen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22227\">last Spring<\/a> when a group of Marines discovered his Facebook page and lit out after him. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29559\">Within a few months<\/a>, Whalen was back to his fakery, this time responding to a call at a local fair as a police officer. After he was arrested for that, he faked documents for a car and defrauded two car dealers &#8211; I guess that was the last straw for the judge, because that&#8217;s why he was sentenced to 150 days in the local jail, with 48 days of time served credit according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/kingmandailyminer.com\/m\/Articles.aspx?ArticleID=54225\">Kingman Daily Miner<\/a>, a link sent to us by Joseph;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said he&#8217;s now got a steady maintenance job, volunteers with the American Legion, plays lead guitar in the church band and is less than 10 credits away from graduating from an online high school.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not as good as I&#8217;m going to get, but I&#8217;m definitely better than I used to be,&#8221; Whalen told Mohave Superior Court Judge Steven Conn.<\/p>\n<p>Conn had the option of imposing up to a year in jail after Whalen entered into a plea agreement with the state for a guaranteed three years on probation.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Ken Skousen recommended six months jail time, which he said was deserved given Whalen&#8217;s accelerated rate of criminal acts. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess if you poke the bear long enough, sooner or later you&#8217;ll get biten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We first ran into Gunny Skyler Whalen last Spring when a group of Marines discovered his &hellip; <a title=\"Phony Marine\/Cop Skyler Whalen sentenced\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33308\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Phony Marine\/Cop Skyler Whalen sentenced<\/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-33308","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\/33308","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=33308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}