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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nYou probably remember William Burley<\/a>, the shirtless phony SEAL who poses for warrior pictures in Mom’s yard and pretends to be a State cop when he’s stalking someone and confronted by the state police. Well, Chip sends us a link to his latest series of escapades, namely repeated busts for weapons crimes<\/a>;<\/p>\n William Burley pleaded not guilty to charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and in possession of ammunition on Wednesday in Morongo Superior Court. Just the previous week in the same court, Burley, a Yucaipa resident, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, a prohibited person in possession of ammunition and receiving stolen property.<\/p>\n Due to special allegations of having a prior strike against him, Burley could be facing four years in a California prison before being sent back to Rhode Island to face imprisonment there, authorities said.<\/p>\n “He is an interesting character and he has some interesting stories, that’s for sure,” said Deputy District Attorney Lisa Muscari.<\/p>\n Burley had been able to avoid detection for nearly eight years, according to investigators. But a vigilant sheriff’s deputy helped bring down Burley’s carefully crafted claims in early February.<\/p>\n “The important thing was getting him off the streets,” said San Bernardino County probation Supervisor Carl Landry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Oh, there’s much more, and a mention of our buddy, Don Shipley;<\/p>\n In 2012, Shipley said in a phone interview, he received a call from a representative of a humanitarian organization working in Somalia. Shipley said the caller, who wished not to be identified, told him Burley came to the group when three of its employees were taken hostage.<\/p>\n “He told them that with his training as a Navy SEAL, he would be able to go over there and rescue their people,” Shipley said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n You might remember that his lawyer tried to get us to remove the post about him because Burley was trying to turn his life around – that was in December. I guess because we didn’t take the post down, he slid further into the morass that was his life;<\/p>\n Burley’s strange tale began to come to light in February when he was stopped by the sheriff’s deputy in the Morongo area, Lawyer said. “When the deputy walked up to the vehicle, Burley pulled out a badge and identified himself as a federal agent.”<\/p>\n Burley reportedly told the deputy he was with the Department of Homeland Security. Suspicious, the deputy called his sergeant, who went to the scene, said Lawyer. Burley repeated his claim to the sergeant and said there were weapons in his vehicle, she said.<\/p>\n Investigators found several firearms, body armor and law enforcement badges in the vehicle, said Probation Department spokesman Chris Condon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n If this guy wasn’t getting his hands on weapons, you know being a convicted felon and all, he’d be a laugh riot. <\/p>\n I think he’s just trying to earn a top seed in our stolen valor tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"