{"id":38823,"date":"2013-12-12T07:29:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T12:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38823"},"modified":"2013-12-12T07:29:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T12:29:40","slug":"guardsman-steals-ids-of-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38823","title":{"rendered":"Guardsman steals IDs of troops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Associated Press<\/a> reports that Keith Michael Novak, a member of the Minnesota National Guard and a commander of his own “militia” unit is being sought by Feds for stealing information from his former 82d Airborne unit and offering to sell it to undercover FBI agents to create identities for his fellow militia members;<\/p>\n

[He] was charged with stealing names, federal identification numbers and security clearance levels of roughly 400 members of his former Army unit in North Carolina so he could make fake IDs for his militia members.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And he doesn’t plan on going out quietly;<\/p>\n

According to a federal complaint and affidavit obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, 25-year-old Keith Michael Novak threatened to use violence if authorities came to arrest him.<\/p>\n

“I’ve my AK in my bed. If I hear that door kick, it’s going boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I’m just going to start putting them through the (expletive) wall,” he told an undercover FBI employee in July, according to the affidavit unsealed Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article continues that Novak is an Iraq War veteran and served in the 82d as an intelligence analyst from 2009 – 2012.<\/p>\n

The undercover employees met Novak in Minnesota in July, and he gave them an electronic copy of classified documents and taught them how to encrypt files, the affidavit said. He also said that he had a personnel roster \u2014 including names, birthdates and Social Security numbers \u2014 of a “Battalion’s-worth of people” from his former unit.<\/p>\n

The undercover employees said they wanted that information and knew someone who could make fake IDs, which Novak said he needed for his militia. On Nov. 4, Novak sent the information for 44 individuals to an undercover FBI employee. On Nov. 25, he accepted $2,000 and said he had additional pages to sell, the affidavit said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m guessing that the last thing you want to do when you find out that the FBI is coming for you, is tell them that you sleep with an AK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Associated Press reports that Keith Michael Novak, a member of the Minnesota National Guard and a … Guardsman steals IDs of troops<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38823","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=38823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}